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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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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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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I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.
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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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Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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There are no accidents; there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
