Neuner Quotes

#1. I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

Magdalena Neuner

#2. I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Magdalena Neuner

#3. His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide.

Shalom Auslander

#4. My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

Magdalena Neuner

#5. For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.

Magdalena Neuner

#6. Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.

Charles Duhigg

#7. Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

John Ortberg

#8. One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

Jess C. Scott

#9. The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

Magdalena Neuner

#10. When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

John Fairclough

#11. I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

Magdalena Neuner

#12. I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

Lionel Trilling

#13. Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

Anne Lamott

#14. We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside, she say.

Lisa Wingate

#15. Writers ... write to give reality to experience.

Archibald MacLeish

#16. Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

Magdalena Neuner

#17. Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.

Bruce Weber