Lin Dan Quotes

I'm no longer young, but I still enjoy the competition and the feeling of that.

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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Sorry

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • God
  • Believe
  • Church

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Swimming

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Myself
  • Healthy

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Fear
  • Decision
  • Creative

• I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • House
  • Parents
  • Dating

• Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Most
  • Cells
  • DNA

• True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • True
  • Help
  • Feeling

• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Diseases
  • Malaria
  • Dengue

• Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Competition
  • Rules
  • Warfare

• Research is all well and good, but I definitely enjoy writing the most. I will happily sit at my computer and work on a single paragraph for hours. And there's no better feeling than when your writing is going well.

  

  Debra Hamel
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Research

• I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.

  

  Geoff Tate
  • Feeling
  • Emotion
  • Technical

• I'm no longer young, but I still enjoy the competition and the feeling of that.

  

  Lin Dan
  • Feeling
  • Competition