What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
John Akers once said that changing IBM's culture was more difficult than getting elephants to dance. Of course it's really difficult, as Lou Gerstner also found out years later. The title of his own book is Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? He and his top executives were change masters at IBM. All organizations, especially the larger ones, will always need change masters. Dissatisfaction with the status quo and efforts to improve it should be encouraged rather than discouraged. Regrettably, that is often not the case.