#ourself

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#get #something #try #won #you

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#chase #coat #even #free #hell

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#important thing #loved #meet #more #most

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#any #decision #did #difficult #endeavor

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#board #carefully #coach #got #implement

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#around #big #big enough #brain #come

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#character #essentially #i #lot #movie

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

#chaos #dreams #effort #exorcism #i

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#course #end #figure #going #got