#eve

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. ↗

— Plato

#govern #governs #teach #teaches #wants

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me. ↗

— Nelson Piquet

#bought #company #everything #f1 #fly

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#even #her #higher #higher levels #human

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#going #illusion #like #real #reality

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#believe #closely #error #great #mediums

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#basis #best #branches #colour #equal

I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #amazing #believe #competing #defend

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#coaching #everything #failure #fertilizer #good

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#even #exhausting #fastest #guts #himself