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• Strangely, although they may seem worlds apart, boxing and tennis have a certain kinship. Two individuals head-to-head, probing for weakness and attacking it. Footwork, timing and stamina are essential. Just you and your opponent until one of you is beaten. There's no brain damage in tennis - although sometimes I wonder.

  Bud Collins

  Two, Boxing, Tennis

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• Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

  Anna Silk

  Creativity, Creative, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

  Henry Rollins

  August, Endurance, Tests

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• It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

  Alexandre Aja

  Creative, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Connections, Moral

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.

  Sally Stanford

  Gynecology, Cash, Firsts

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• The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

  Ilka Chase

  Marriage, Endurance, Facts

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Home, Character, Doors

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• You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.

  Charleszetta Waddles

  Husband, World, Enough

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• Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them.

  Golda Meir

  Women, Believe, Overcoming

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.

  Leon Uris

  Self, Order, Two

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• For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Challenges

  "Michelle Obama: Team Effort Needed to Halt Childhood Obesity". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 8, 2010.

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• What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  Katy Lederer

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

  Lauren Bacall

  Long, Imagination, Actors

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• I've been in football all my life, gentlemen, and I don't know whether I'm particularly qualified to be a part of anything else, except I consider it a great game, a game of many assets, by the way, and I think a symbol of what this country's best attributes are: courage and stamina and a coordinated efficiency or teamwork.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Country

  Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.15, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.

  Karyn Kusama

  Fire, Creative, Curiosity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Half, Four

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Artist, Needs, Tools

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

  Katherine Dunn

  Innocence, Forgetfulness, Sheer

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even religious time. Lent is about exercising the control that enables us to say no to ourselves so that when life turns hard of its own accord we have the stamina to yes to its twists and turns with faith and hope. Lent is the time to make new efforts to be what we say we want to be.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Religious, Exercise, Effort

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• There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

  Jane McGonigal

  Believe, Playing Games, Optimism

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• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Self, America

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• Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Memories, Unique

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• You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

  John Irving

  Eye, Mirrors, Views

  John Irving (1996). “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”, p.341, Arcade Publishing

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• Though we have rightly applauded our ancestors for their spiritual achievements (and do not and must not discount them now), those of us who prevail today will have done no small thing. The special spirits who have been reserved to live in this time of challenges and who overcome will one day be praised for their stamina by those who pulled handcarts.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Achievement, Challenges

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