"If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played."

-- Daley Thompson

#Sports Quotes #Real Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.”
“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.7, Harper Collins
“Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.”
“It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation." Then what? What do we get out of that? We get - Trump is helping the approval ratings amongst Russians. How does that advance American national security interests?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

Source : Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.119, Hachette UK
“Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.”

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”
“I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.”
“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”

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