Michael Johnson Quotes
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
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I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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I believed that anything was possible, or at least because I didn't put together everyone else's 'facts' and believe that winning was impossible.
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Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.
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I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.
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The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.
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Seeing that 'Project Runway' sign at the end of the runway just made me, like, realize, like, 'Wow, I'm on this show. I'm living every designer's dream right now.'
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The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
