Masafumi Kobayashi Quotes & Sayings

There is something that can happen to every athlete and every human being; the instinct to slack off, to give in to pain, to give less than your best; the instinct to hope you can win through luck or through your opponent not doing his best, instead of going to the limit and past your limit where victory is always found. Defeating those negative instincts that are out to defeat us, is the difference between winning and losing - and we all face that battle every day. — Jesse Owens

We had it all. Life was perfect. And then life changed. It always does. When life changes in this way, we can beg and plead to go back to the way things were. Feeling entitled to that reality. Waiting for someone to wave the magic wand and put things back to normal; back to the way life was. Or we can step up, recognize that it is time to move forward from here, and embrace total accountability — John O'Leary

The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if you force yourself to write when you're in the doldrums, it will have the perverse effect of cheering you up. At the very least, it allows you to inflict your pain on your characters, which has the dual effect of giving them more depth while relieving your own tension. — Sabrina Jeffries

Nothing is more relieving than speaking truth in tough moments. — Saru Singhal

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. — Geraldo Rivera

A tiny seed of a giant tree must not behave like a giant tree; a tiny seed is a tiny seed yet! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Encouraged by this recollection, I pick up my spear again, attack the weeds I did not invite to grow in my garden, and am left with this morning's one lesson: when something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the same courage mercilessly to pluck it out. — Paulo Coelho

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else. — Jesse Ventura

You, alone, chose and accepted responsibility for your path, and that is why you will leave this chamber on your own two feet. — Jennifer Turner

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. — Mitch Kapor