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I could process a lot of information and make really fast decisions.
Retirement press conference, DenverBroncos.com, 7 March 2016 source ↗
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Simone Biles
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Literally can not tell up from down. It's the craziest feeling ever. Not having an inch of control over your body. What's even scarier is since I have no idea where I am in the air, I also have NO idea how I am going to land. Or what I am going to land on. Head/hands/feet back…
Geoffrey Rush
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But if I’ve come up with any kind of mantra for myself it’s to try and put myself into a state of imaginative play.
Brian Eno
Composer, record producer and visual artist
I find that you’re a completely different person as a maker than you are as a listener. That’s one of the reasons I so often leave the studio to listen to things. A lot of people never leave the studio when they’re making something, so they’re always in that maker mode, screwdriving things in - adding, adding, adding. Because it seems like the right thing to be doing in that room. But it’s when you come out that you start to hear what you like.
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View profile →My dad always told me and my two brothers, “Don’t ever get too proud or too old to say that you love me and to say that you love each other.” “Love” is a pretty commonly used word in our family. When I talk to my brothers now on the phone midday, we always end the conversation saying, “I love you. I love you, bro.”
They always say, “Don’t take your job home.” When you go home, don’t take it. I don’t agree with that.
I prayed a lot about it. I sought a lot of advice from my dad.
That's a real challenge and a real issue. Reading the statistics, they had a ranking of quarterbacks, and the statistic was the percentage of a touchdown drive after an interception. To me, that is a telling statistic. The guys that have a high percentage are the guys that have short memories. They talk about having amnesia as a quarterback. You better move along from it. It is hard to say you forget about it, because you want to learn from it. You want to address it. You can't just say it never happened.
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Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1 April 2007
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You’re talking about going back to as a freshman in high school. Every day from August until — the season is growing in pro ball — but August to December. Practice is at this time. It’s 4:00 to 6:00 in high school, it’s 2:00 to 4:00 in college, and it’s 1:00 to 3:00 in pro ball, but that is your routine.
I wanted to play pro football or pro baseball.
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