Bobby Labonte Quotes

We ran a lap in practice that I screwed up on but will still ran a decent lap.

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Changes

• I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Day

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • School
  • Poetry

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Country
  • Done
  • Today

• I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • House
  • Met
  • Berlin

• Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • War
  • New

• He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Enjoy

• I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Paris
  • Chocolate
  • Pastries

• I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Myself
  • Imagine
  • I Can

• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • You
  • Possible

• Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Understanding

• CALLINGWind rocksthe porch chairsomebody home.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Home

• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Faith

• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Death
  • Wish

• Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Together
  • Suffering

• We ran a lap in practice that I screwed up on but will still ran a decent lap.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Practice
  • Lap
  • Screwed Up