Daniel James Brown quotes

“What matters is how many times you get up.”
-- Daniel James Brown

Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys In The Boat”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

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“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.”
-- Daniel James Brown

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“What mattered more than how hard a man rowed was how well everything he did in the boat harmonized with what the other fellows were doing. And a man couldn’t harmonize with his crewmates unless he opened his heart to them. He had to care about his crew.”
-- Daniel James Brown

Source : Daniel James Brown (2015). “The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics”, p.134, Penguin

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“Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together.”
-- Daniel James Brown

Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.123, Penguin

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“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that's why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That's what he gets from rowing.”
-- Daniel James Brown

Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.357, Penguin

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“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it, while pain has her wanton way with you.”
-- Daniel James Brown

Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.40, Penguin

#Hurt Quotes #Pain Quotes #Way Quotes

“As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.”

“Money doesn't have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn't. What matters is what you make. Whether it's a cake for bingo night or a costume for a saint or a wall of water-whatever you pour into this life is what makes you rich.”

“When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.”

“Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.”

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

“When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.”

“Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.”

“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press

“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.”

Source : "Stephen Curry Talks About His Christian Faith in MVP Acceptance Speech" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. May 6, 2015.

“Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.”

“No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.”