T.W. Shannon Quotes

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

Information is the #resolution of uncertainty.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

I am very seldom interested in applications. I am more interested in the elegance of a problem. Is it a good problem, an interesting problem?

If you feel alone and you've got nowhere to run to, always remember that your family is always there for you. It's their duty.

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

If you believe in yourself, things are possible.

Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Never look back on something bad, yesterday is gone, today is now, tomorrow doesn't exist.

Never let go of the people that you love, because without them, what else have you got?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

You gotta have faith. Even at the bottom of the blackest hole, there will always be light shining through. It just takes faith to see it.

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.

When people told me I'd never make it, I listened to the one person who said I could: me.

We're born, we live, we die. The most important thing out of those three is to live your life the way you want to.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

I think I feel the most comfortable being insane.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

When life is hard, you have to change.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.