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"I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh."
"I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person."
"We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible."
"The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in."
"There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given."
"Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context."
"I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform."
"I think the biggest thing for all athletes is recovery - being able to bounce back from week to week, practice to practice, to come back in top form."
"I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions."
"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."
"Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you."
"I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo."
"don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work."
"Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly."
"Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end."
"You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so."
"thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think."
"I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that."
"Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought."
"My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things."
