#la

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#cameroon #i #i always #left #lived

I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#attention #day #every #feels #i

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #athlete #been

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#healers #still #stories #tell #villages

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#feel #friends #group #guys #helped

You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#calm #echo #environment #hear #starts

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. ↗

— Alex Noble

#continues #journey #place #rather #spirit

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history