#w

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve. ↗

— Dick Fosbury

#athlete #even #evolve #i #imagined

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#comes #day #doing #door #himself

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#charisma #convinced #essential #every #everyone

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#answered #ask #cannot #come #creative

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#genius #indeed #mozart #qualities #understand

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#back #berlin #childhood #days #i

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. ↗

— Bob Fosse

#cherries #just #laugh #life #live

I won't tolerate lying. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#lying #tolerate #won

At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#considerably #end #get #going #happen

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#come #day #every #every single day #hundreds