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Bryce Courtenay Quotes

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Bryce Courtenay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: August 14, 1933 - November 22, 2012

Topics

People Brain You Lose Intellectual

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.

John Joly

Great Universe Results Minute Forces

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

Stark Sands

Space City Drive Direction You Jump

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

Funny Hate Woman Head Shoulders Her

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

Toni Kroos

Game You Lose Touch Ball Normal

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Inspirational Plant Foot Prints Made

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self - to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Women Struggle Men Think Self Shame

My game is - and I'm not saying I'm slow or anything like that, but my game is mental. My game is shooting; my game is efficiency. If I'm healthy, I feel like I can be effective for a long time.

Chauncey Billups

Time Saying Game Slow Efficiency

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

Christina Perri

Morning Creative Fruit You Know Get

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Chris Van Allsburg

Kind Boy Hubris Midwest Stories

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I'm going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that's what will happen.

Conor McGregor

Deep You Will Belief Clean First

Without social media, I'd probably just be a quirky, amateur photographer with a hard drive full of photos. I'd be cold calling respected publications, begging for a feature.

Brandon Stanton

Social Media Drive Cold Media Hard

This is something I've struggled with a lot: how to relate to the fear in a constructive way. It's not that you eliminate the fear. We have all the fears. That's natural; that's human beings. But how do you deal with the fears, how do you engage with your fears in a way that's productive?

Brad Feld

Fear You Way Human Engage Something