Carrie Tollefson (Carrie Anne Tollefson) Quotes

I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again.

Carrie Tollefson

• Trying
• Win
• Put
• Miles
• Coast

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• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Women
  • Country
  • Together

• When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • True
  • Something
  • Trivial

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Darkness
  • Human Heart

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

  

  B. B. King
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Poetry

• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Become
  • Strive
  • Obscure

• Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

  

  Vanity
  • Up
  • Good
  • Day

• When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

  

  Inbee Park
  • She
  • Me
  • Week

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Attention

• Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Brain
  • Tattoos

• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Rip

• Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Kind

• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Cool
  • Nothing
  • Punishment

• I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Best
  • Confidence
  • Win

• My father was an old - fashioned bloke, and he actually told me one day, "I'm not your friend, I'm your father. My job is to bring you up, give you values for life and to ensure that you carry those values through."

  

  Warren Mundine
  • Father
  • Giving
  • Jobs

• I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again.

  

  Carrie Tollefson
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Put