Clara Hughes Quotes

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

Clara Hughes

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• I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Think
  • Way
  • Meet

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Creativity
  • Enthusiasm

• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Days
  • Holocaust

• There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Political
  • Creation

• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • Size

• Isn’t Hollywood a dump - in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• 'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words
  • Boy

• Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Single
  • Taken
  • Decision

• We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fake

• The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

• There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

  

  Luke Harding
  • Long

• The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Car
  • Sun

• Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden

• The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

  

  Cofer Black
  • Violence

• When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very emotional when I think about the humiliation that I've suffered playing football.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Football
  • Emotional

• Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

  

  Bryant H. McGill

• Endurance is mind over matter.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind
  • Endurance

• Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

  

  John Montgomery Ward
  • Live
  • America
  • Game

• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Hope
  • Light
  • Pain

• Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Small
  • Led

• With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

  

  Clara Hughes
  • Endurance