Julie Foucher quotes

“We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what’s worth pursuing.”
-- Julie Foucher

Source : "On CrossFit and Risk" by Julie Foucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2014.

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“The harder it is, the better you become.”
-- Julie Foucher

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“No matter who you are, how much money you make, or what kind of clothes you are wearing, CrossFit will force you to come face-to-face with your imperfections”
-- Julie Foucher

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“A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.”
-- Julie Foucher

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“There are too many other barriers to success in life to allow a lack of self-confidence to be one of them.”
-- Julie Foucher

Source : "Ladies, Let’s Aim for the Top of the Podium" by Julie Foucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”

“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”

“A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.”

“Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.”

“The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.”

“For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.”

“I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.”

“It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.”

“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.”

“A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book IV, Chapter 7, 1735.