Deena Kastor Quotes

Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nobody
  • Everybody
  • He

• My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Sword

• I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Relax

• The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Reality
  • India
  • Goat

• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Things

• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Scene

• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • Election

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Father
  • House

• All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Voice

• Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Good
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement

• I'm very, very blessed.  But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to be taken away from me right now.  As a mother I have to speak up and say something. I have to speak up.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Freedom

• There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Song
  • Moments

• We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Art
  • Future
  • Want

• Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

  

  William James
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Instant

• Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

  

  Deena Kastor
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Challenge