Carolina Kluft quotes

“Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event”
-- Carolina Kluft

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.”
-- Carolina Kluft

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“Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.”
-- Carolina Kluft

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.”

“I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.”

“It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.”

Source : "The secret diary of Claire Danes" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

“I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.”

“As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.”

“Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.”

“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”

“History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”

“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”

“We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.”