"When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place."

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Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

Adam Yauch

#Motivation Quotes #Heart Quotes #Race Quotes

“My father, Norman Mailer, expected a lot from us and he really pushed us and you know one of his favorite lines was, "If you think I'm being hard on you, wait until life hits you because life is a hell of a lot tougher than I am." And I took everything he said to heart. He taught me how to write, which was scary and intimidating and hard, but ultimately one of the biggest gifts I could have ever asked for.”
“Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.”
“The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.”
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.”
“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
“Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.”

Source : "12 rich, powerful people share their surprising definitions of success" by Shana Lebowitz, www.businessinsider.com. March 4, 2018.
“Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.”
“I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.”

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