"The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing."

“You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.”

Source : Lori Greiner (2014). “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality”, p.258, Ballantine Books

“You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.”

“If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.”

“Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.”

Source : "Bolshoi Prima ballerina's grace under pressure" by Lianne Turner, George Webster, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2012.

“I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the table in terms of affecting the public discourse would be Oliver Stone. His combination of academic brilliance and real life experience and just understanding people I think is what makes him such a great storyteller, but also he cares. He is interested. He meets somebody and he listens to them. He has some questions. He wants to know what they're about. And as a result I think his worldview is much more complex and whole and most of the other.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available.”

“There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish”

“No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.”