#rent

I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis. ↗

— Roger Federer

#anymore #because #came #come #enjoy

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#become #been #correct #day #decree

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#again #different #different way #his #man

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#any #circumstance #control #different #every

When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#business #different #discipline #doing #everybody

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#christian #christian home #grew #home #i

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#different #different ways #expressing #find #i

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#father #mother #parents #were

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#could #different #different things #doing #during

They visited him in saris, clumping gracelessly through red mud and long grass ... and introduced themselves as Mrs. Pillai, Mrs. Eapen and Mrs. Rajagopalan. Velutha introduced himself and his paralyzed brother Kuttappen (although he was fast asleep). He greeted them with the utmost courtesy. He addressed them all as Kochamma [an honorific title for a woman] and gave them fresh coconut water to drink. He chatted to them about the weather. The river. The fact that in his opinion coconut trees were getting shorter by the year. As were the ladies in Ayemenem. He introduced them to his surly hen. He showed them his carpentry tools, and whittled them each a little wooden spoon. It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. [emphasis mine] It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#imagination #love #make-believe #parenting #dreams