Gene LeBell Quotes
People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
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Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.
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Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
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People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.
