#let

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#created #games #individual #olympic #olympic games

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#another #cannot #courses #degrees #difference

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#been #dancing #entire #entire life #hip

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#because #bit #bloody #cool #difficult

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down! ↗

— Emily VanCamp

#core #down #favorite #four #get

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#away #company #contact #cut #deal

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. ↗

— Jack Vance

#completely #environment #immersed #reader #someone

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. ↗

— Francis Crick

#bases #been #changes #composition #data

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #amino acid #case #determination #difficult