"What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last."

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Source : Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

Grete Waitz

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Spurs Quotes

“the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.”
“A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.”
“Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.”
“The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.”
“Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.”
“If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.”
“I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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