Bubka Pole Quotes & Sayings

You have this really powerful technological infrastructure that can do really tremendous things. At the same time, it's never going to be as flexible as we'd like it to be. Just by nature of web technology. — Khoi Vinh

We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist. — Sergei Bubka

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed — Sam Altman

The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge. — Philippa Perry

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But — Claire Messud

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove. — Sergei Bubka

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. — Sergei Bubka

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches. — Sergei Bubka

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved. — Sergei Bubka

My credibility is zero. My wife claims she can go before any judge at any time and have me committed. — Alan Abel

Every problem is an ego problem. In order to have a problem there has to be an ego-frustration. — Lester Levenson

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? — Sara Teasdale

Forget a man's name and he'll forgive you. Remember it, and he'll defend you forever. — Pierce Brown

I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it. — Conor Oberst