Olympic Lifts Quotes & Sayings

I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. — Barack Obama

In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents. — Keeth Smart

I require of all my students ... that they are downy and pubescent, pimpled with sullen mistrust, and boiling away with private fury and ardor and uncertainty and gloom. I require that they wait in the corridor for ten minutes at least before each lesson, tenderly nursing their injustices, picking miserably at their own unworthiness as one might finger a scab or caress a scar. If I am to teach your daughter, you darling hopeless and inadequate mother, she must be moody and bewildered and awkward and dissatisfied and wrong. When she realizes that he body is a secret, a dark and yawning secret of which she becomes more and more ashamed, come back to me. You must understand me on this point. I cannot teach children. — Eleanor Catton

We must be willing to say what the Bible says. — Alistair Begg

Quick note here: Everybody wants you to share your MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT all the time, and I am here to tell you that you don't have to. You don't have to tell it or tweet it or Instagram it. You don't have to put it in a book or share it with anyone who doesn't feel safe and protective of your heart. — Amy Poehler

Big ideas are usually simple ideas. — David Ogilvy

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family. — Brett Morgen

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything.
Everyone was so full of crap. — Blake Nelson

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket — Andy Gray

Writing is a very sophisticated form of multiple personality disorder. — Daryl Farmer

A new oath holds pretty well; but ... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. — Mark Twain

In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater. — Ray Dalio

What are the chances that you'd be there? It's funny sometimes the way the world works. Makes you think there's got to be a reason things turn out the way they do." -Louis — Michelle Schlicher

When I mentioned that I'd always wanted to have sex against the wall with a woman in a skirt, she said, Well, how convenient. I just so happen to have a skirt on, and there are several walls in here. — Cindi Madsen

How can you truly know what success is, if you've never experienced failure? — Chad Pennington