I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.
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Related I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I ha... DAVID LEVITHAN Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Much, much better, ... Best it's felt. I did everything in fast motion, as fast as I could, just to ... ABRAHAM NUNEZ How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN I just feel like it's got to be about the process and about the doing of it, rather than be about ho... THANDIE NEWTON It said something about how much the soul or spirit in charge mattered. STACEY KADE How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he describ... BILL FERGUSON To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I still feel it out there. I really felt it when I jammed it about four times. But it's just somethi... LLEYTON HEWITT I saw Kelsey send that ball and I just took off; I don't know how I got in. I remember touching the ... EMMA JONES I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak ... GEORGE CUKOR I have appropriated $20,000 to do this. There is no really knowing how long it will take or how much... DAVE MCANINCH I knew I was going to be able to go, ... I felt good, I ran good. A no-brainer, I was going out ther... CHAMP BAILEY Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) ELVIS PRESLEY I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical realit... ADRIENNE MAYOR I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don'... JEFF GARCIA What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus i... ELAINE PAGELS To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they... VON GRAFFIN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD That's how it happen! DEYTH BANGER I feel it is important to see the situation live. When you see it in slow motion, you can be fooled ... TERJE HAUGE I heard horror stories about this place but I really didn't know where it was or how to get there. I... COURTNEY EMKEN You get a job when you have the right qualifications and work experience. Similarly, individuals sho... MADDY MALHOTRA When it really mattered, he (Lamb) got to the foul line. MIKE CONNER There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play. JASON CAMPBELL When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting li... TONI SORENSON It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it. PETER BUFFETT Life is in a constant motion no matter how vague at times it leads us to. HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it. JEFFREY FRY I wasn't worried about at all, really, ... I don't worry about how far it is. I just know what I hav... JOSE CORTEZ In 2002, I was sitting at home watching the opening ceremonies, not knowing how emotional it would b... TANITH BELBIN On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set.... CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON It never mattered how much you did or how much you tried. LINDA PARDO I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no poin... CAMERON VAN DER BURGH We've got to learn how to finish. It was kind of the same thing that happened at the Carolina game. ... CEDRIC SIMMONS I think we've started it. It just depends on how we finish these last few games. DON CRUMLEY I just want to say that I think no matter how you feel about Iraq or any of that situation, you need... DWIGHT ADAMS I just picked games and didn't even know how it worked. I never thought much about it. But after thr... CRAIG MORTON I knew that last lap that Jess Sapp would cross the finish line first, but I was so close, and it wa... LAUREN ZIEMBA If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important. JEFF OLSON There is no one right way. Just figure out what works for you! LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'... AYN RAND Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI It is not how you start; it's how you finish, ... I expect to make it a strong finish. STEVE FINLEY to see how many people were there, and see how normal I felt — just to know that support was there... CHRIS ADAMS I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how m... KATIE KITAMURA I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it. LUIS AVILA People tell me to stop preaching but I tell them I have every right to do this 'cause I've lived bot... JAGUAR WRIGHT Everybody's just been spilling their guts all over records and talking about how hard it is to b... SEAN COMBS It was so demoralizing to lose my body and begin to realize that my whole future may be set on its e... LAURA HILLENBRAND We're definitely still learning about the Big East, it's a very tough conference. Right now, I'd lik... DAVE UHRICH I didn't know how much time was on the clock. I saw the ball rolling and at first I didn't know what... ASHLEIGH NEWMAN We'd rather be steady early on and get that much better as the season goes on, instead of being so l... CHRIS HERNANDEZ I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS 'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be ... JANE MCGONIGAL But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ... CLINTON KELLY We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Catriona played brilliantly, and I felt I really hung in there. I didn't hit too many greens but I g... JANICE MOODIE I had learned to hide what I felt. No, that's not true. There was no learning involved. I had been b... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I didn't think it was that physical of a game, but I guess it was. We can't send a team to the line ... BILL AGRONIN But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and... ESTELLE PARSONS Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what y... LEO BABAUTA I felt very unsure about this match, to be honest. I had a bad feeling about it but what matters is ... ROGER FEDERER I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd j... TITUSS BURGESS As I came across the finish line in I was in shock. It was a good feeling knowing I was state champ.... JEFF MORIARTY I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which y... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh’ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you? PAMELA CLARE I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope."... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The peopl... SARAH DESSEN Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. 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When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT It's disappointing that I won't be able to dress, but I've still got to wait my turn. That's just ho... DORELL WRIGHT If they would have told us there was going to be alcohol at the state wrestling tournament, that cer... GLEN MORGAN
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We all... SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the... SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran... SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie. SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp... SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea... SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo... SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost... SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should... SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need. SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death... SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. SARAH DESSEN I want the white one SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret... SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as... SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there h... SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings... SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�... SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff... SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto... SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to... SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like... SARAH DESSEN Story of my life. SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ... SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin... SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ... SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. SARAH DESSEN So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that lo... SARAH DESSEN