Gravenstein Quotes & Sayings

For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in. — Ian Thorpe

Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your interactions,strenght of character and how diverse and interesting you can be. You are MORE than shy. Don't be labeled, be what you wanna be in any given moment. And DO what WORKS, not what you think you are. — Matthew Hussey

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate ... — Ray Lewis

What's the use of held note or a held line
That cannot be assailed for reassurance? — W.B.Yeats

I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement ... trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll. — Irene Cara

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change. — Alanis Obomsawin

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't. — David Hockney

Class supremacy can rest only on class degradation — Jack London

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development. — Alice Miller

No one gets ahead by striving for mediocrity. — Glenn C. Stewart

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests. — Charles C. Mann