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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony. ↗

— Edward Witten

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I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes. ↗

— Edward Witten

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As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually. ↗

— Edward Witten

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