"People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure."

-- Jean-Claude Killy

#Leadership Quotes #Sports Quotes #Availability Quotes

“I just like being in a place where there are lots of people playing. You might get to spend a minute, or collaborate.”
“I'm insanely girly. I like having the door opened for me. I want to cook dinner for my boyfriend. And I can't wait to have babies.”
“There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.”
“The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.”
“Every shy person is a potential sex offender.”

Source : "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, 1992.
“For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.”
“No beer before 5 p.m., wait... did I just say that?”
“I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 14, 2009.

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