Top 382 Quotes & Sayings by Romanian Authors - Page 7

Being No. 1 is great, but it is even better to win a Grand Slam.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.

I use the golden ratio to create the perfect shape on my clients' faces.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.

I finished three years ranked No. 1, so the ranking doesn't matter anymore.

I don't feel pressure anymore in the negative way.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

It's nice I inspire the kids. tThat's the most important thing, and more people are now playing tennis, even for fun. That's great.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

To be honest, I don't think I ever had thought I had to be successful. I just saw a need and I liked to be challenged, that's my personality.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.