Haile Gebrselassie Quotes

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

Haile Gebrselassie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: April 18, 1973

Topics

WalkDaySchoolWaitingMeFarm

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

Jeremy Irvine

ThinkYouWillSameTellWorking

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Joel Osteen

LiveGodPovertyYouProsperityPay

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

Jennifer Doudna

MyselfI AmThinkI CanRole Model

Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

SadFightPracticeToughNewNice

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Anita Brookner

HomeWomenGoWillMoreNever

Do what is best for most people, not just a few. Prevent your elites and growing middle class, those who often benefit most from growth and development, from turning into a special interests group that blocks reforms.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

GrowthBestPeopleGrowingGroup

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

Steven Wright

SucceedYouFirstSkydivingThen

When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

Corey Taylor

SoulSongStoneDarkI CanPlace

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

Winston Marshall

WorkMeSongLearnYouKnow

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

Phyllis Bottome

MistakeNothingFinalBeingTaken

Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess.

Shashi Tharoor

SuccessCompetitionIsolationIndia

Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively.

Todd Haynes

LovePeopleObstaclesForwardYou

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