Amby Burfoot Quotes
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There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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I learned life from some good teachers.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
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I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.
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We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
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I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.
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My little brother and grandma told me I could sing. I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.
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It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
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That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.
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Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
