"I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Jessica Ennis

#Kids Quotes #Trying Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.”
“However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.”

Source : Peter Quennell (1971). “Singular Preference: Portraits and Essays”
“If you crave something, Iâ€™ll be the one to give it to you. All of your needs, Eva, are mine to fulfill. Whatever it costs me.”
“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Source : Judith Butler (2014). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"”, p.2, Routledge
“In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.”
“Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.”

Source : Lynn Austin (2009). “Though Waters Roar”, p.166, Bethany House
“You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody”

Source : Les Giblin (1956). “How to Have Confidence and Power In Dealing With People”, p.32, Les Giblin Books
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”

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