Deena Kastor Quotes

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Deena Kastor

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• Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Passion
  • Focus
  • Skill

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Flame

• I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Passion
  • Best

• Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Passion

• Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Passion
  • Obsession

• I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there's that old saying, 'Where there's a will, there's a way,' and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Work
  • Music
  • Passion

• The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Thoughts

• I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Freedom
  • Passion
  • Regret

• Cows are my passion.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Passion

• If I can just accept it and tic when I want to and have my passion project - what I'm mentally, physically, emotionally invested in something - where you're fully focused, and your body parts and mind are all moving toward this one goal, you're focused, and you can shut it off, but only for a certain period of time. Then, you have to let loose.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Passion

• Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • People
  • Passion
  • Appreciation

• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Passion

• But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Music
  • Food
  • Passion

• My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Passion

• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Military

• Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Focus
  • Challenge

• A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Laughing
  • Fantasy
  • Figure

• No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Reality

• When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

  

  Deena Kastor
  • Passion
  • Enthusiasm
  • Figuring