#sever

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. ↗

— Sasha Cohen

#dreams #eat #exercise #follow #follow your dreams

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#add #always #disneyland #excited #five

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#college #did #forgo #go #had

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#appalled #fact #i #life #literally

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

#day-to-day #discipline #fiction #fiction writing #highly

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#enough #key #long #perseverance #persevering

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes. ↗

— Evan Davis

#about #ad #amusing #audience #believe

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#been #between #block #building #building block

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#perseverance #photography #art

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#comes #concerns #different #get #habit