Daley Thompson Quotes

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

Daley Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 30, 1958

Topics

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Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MyselfMeMysteryWhyWriteOutside

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Jo Brand

ChildrenMeThinkKnowBecomeRude

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

Jesse Ventura

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To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

Jerry Lewis

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It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Angelina Jolie

WorkMeDecisionsTryingFindWant

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

Michael Flatley

BelieveYouNewHillOverFifty

We have a terrific team, and our managers are terrific managers, but we have made it too complicated for them and too complicated in a way that they just can't do an excellent job in many cases when it comes to the customer experience.

Steve Ells

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil

TeacherKnowImportantTeachMost

I used to hurt myself by training all the time.

Troy Dumais

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I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

Roisin Murphy

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I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability.

Mike Yaconelli

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You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

Mo Ibrahim

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