"Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perÂseverance."

-- Geoff Dyer

#Giving Up Quotes #Trying Quotes #Persevere Quotes

“The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.”
“We need less perfect but more free films.”

Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.16, Columbia University Press
“The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.”
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.”
“I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete”
“I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.”
“It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.”

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