"I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me."

-- Ludmila Engquist

#Running Quotes #Goal Quotes #Survival Quotes

“There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.”
“You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.”

Source : "Billy Bathgate". Book by E. L. Doctorow, 1989.
“Evolution is a fairy tale for adults”
“You adapt, evolve, compete or die.”

Source : "Adapt or die" by Katherine Burton, Hedge Funds Review, July 2004.
“The rollercoaster has its ups and downs, loops and twists but enjoy the ride. We are all on it together.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 11, 2012
“The right way to play golf is to go up and hit the bloody thing.”
“imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.”
“There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.”

Source : Celia Rees (2011). “The Fool's Girl”, p.78, A&C Black

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