Neil Strauss Quotes
In order to excel at anything, there are always hurdles, obstacles, or challenges one must get past. It's what bodybuilders call the pain period. Those who push themselves, and are willing to face pain, exhaustion, humiliation, rejection, or worse, are the ones who become champions. The rest are left on the sidelines.Neil Strauss
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
Aaron Johnson -
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
Olga Korbut -
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
Gabrielle Zevin -
Reading is power. Reading is life.
Karin Slaughter -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
Lapo Elkann -
Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Adam Hamilton -
My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
Carl Hiaasen -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
J. D. Vance -
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
Waris Dirie -
When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
Carlos Ghosn -
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm.
Anna Maria Chavez -
I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.
Douglas Carter Beane -
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
Weird Al Yankovic -
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
Og Mandino -
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo -
In order to excel at anything, there are always hurdles, obstacles, or challenges one must get past. It's what bodybuilders call the pain period. Those who push themselves, and are willing to face pain, exhaustion, humiliation, rejection, or worse, are the ones who become champions. The rest are left on the sidelines.
Neil Strauss