"Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five"

-- Sugar Ray Leonard

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“Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.”

Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”
“What we do is never as important as how we do it.”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. (2011). “Positive Discipline: The Classic Guide to Helping Children Develop Self-Discipline, Responsibility, Cooperation, and Problem-Solving Skills”, p.61, Ballantine Books
“As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.”
“I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.”
“No man is great if he thinks he is.”
“Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.”
“The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.”
“Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.”

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