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“You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.”
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“John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!”
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“This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.”
Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.9, Del Rey
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“Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.”
Source : Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”
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“When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.”
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“If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.”
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“Don't go to the grave with life unused.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.”
Source : Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan