"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself."

-- Billy Mills

#Winning Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Depth Quotes

“Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.”
“I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.”
“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”

Source : Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills
“Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.”
“A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate”
“Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.”
“It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.”

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