"I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock."

-- Picabo Street

#Focus Quotes #Competition Quotes #Skiing Quotes

“I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"”
“The secret of confidence is focusing on what you can control, not on what you can't.”
“Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.”
“In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side by side and intermarry for long periods of time until it becomes valuable to exploit the division. And yes, the division's there because you can always revert back to history, you can always inflame it, but it is manipulated for political ends.”
“Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.”
“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 47), February 27, 1963.
“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
“There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.”

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