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 wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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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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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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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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unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.
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My dad gave me life twice. I thank him by using the strong body I now have.
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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.
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I'll live a lush life in some small dive.
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The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
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Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
