#ect

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams. ↗

— Dara Torres

#ambition #dreams #experience #goals #identity

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#fashion #humor #respect #humor

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#another #another way #art #beneath #connect

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#always #enabling #fact #films #i

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes. ↗

— Francis Maude

#compete #disillusioned #effectively #enough #gain

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected. ↗

— Alice Paul

#many #only #politicians #reelected #terms

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. ↗

— Alice Paul

#complicated #direction #doubted #equal #equal rights

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#cannot #commitment #effective #focused #leaders

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. ↗

— Ron Paul

#average #average americans #bad #benefit #borrow

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#being #creator #hour #life #lives