"I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6."

-- Nolan Gerard Funk

#Gymnastics Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Toddler Quotes

“Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.”
“We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.”
“When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again. ... Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions, and this will benefit everyone.”
“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.”

Source : Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books
“What I do is see the ball, hit the ball.”
“You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services”
“To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.”
“Poetry and prayer are very similar”

Source : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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