Mirai Nagasu Quotes

Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

Mirai Nagasu

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• I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Serious
  • Name
  • Questions

• I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strong

• I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Natural
  • Warrior
  • Guess

• The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

  

  Charles Eames
  • Life

• The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Work
  • Different
  • Giving

• People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • America
  • Listening

• Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding
  • Accepting

• It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True

• Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Americans
  • Swimming
  • Hunting

• Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Real
  • War

• I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Kids
  • Partnership
  • Canadian Development Organization

• Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Blame
  • Praise
  • Careful

• God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

  

  Hannah Hurnard
  • God
  • Hearts
  • Satisfaction

• No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • War
  • Earth
  • Hate

• When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.

  

  Erick Erickson
  • People
  • Animal
  • Female

• While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Persons
  • Term
  • Principles

• It's such a release to show yourself as not a charming person but just someone who is vulnerable.

  

  Miranda Seymour
  • Someone
  • Vulnerable
  • Release

• Who cares if you get last place. This is the Olympics. Making it is the hard part.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Olympics
  • Hard Part
  • Last Place