“Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.” IfsWantSportsDecisionCareersPercentStonesAthletePreparationCrucialOlympic Athlete Author:Apolo Ohno
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” MenInspirationalBelieveWisdomMotivationalMovingTimeFaithSportsCouragePositiveWise WordsWords Of WisdomMountainStonesPerseveranceBrilliantUpliftingChinesePersistenceBelieve In YourselfLittle ThingsPersistNew BeginningsNot Giving UpBeginningWise Man Once SaidMountain ClimbingPerserveranceSuperior ManSmall StepsConfucianismInspirational Mountain ClimbingStarting A BusinessAncient WisdomMountain TopClimbing Mountains InspirationalMountain ManJust Keep MovingNever Give Up HopeNew Life New BeginningChinese PhilosopherChinese ProverbSmall BeginningsJust Keep Moving OnWise ChineseIncrementalismOrdinary And Extraordinary Author:Confucius
“Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.” InspirationalLawOpportunitySportsNaturalGreaterDoorsBalanceStonesDifficultyMotivational SportsProblem SolvingNatural LawStepping Stones Author:Bryan Adams
“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.” IfsLifeMadeHardRealityWould BeScienceSportsWaterNatureChanceCreativeAliveRocksCreationShapesStonesImpressionDelusionShellsVagueSuperficialMudCreative Power Author:Agostino Scilla
“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.” DiesSportsAnimalBoysStonesPhilosophicalEarnestFrogsAnimal CrueltyAnimal LifeAnimal Ethics Author:Bion of Borysthenes