Jesse Owens Quotes

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.

Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective.

In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

I had never imagined myself doing [wrestling]. Once I came to the realization that it was a possibility, I just tried to concentrate on what I thought people would enjoy.

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

There's so much information on the internet. But people don't need more information, they need 'aha moments,' they need awareness, they need things that actually shift and change them.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

I hated motivators - never been a motivator. Motivation is like a warm bath, and you should take a bath probably, but you need more than that; you need strategy. I was a strategist, but nobody responded to that, so I was, like, "OK, what am I? I'm a coach. I'm not a guru." As an athlete, I had great coaches, and I was a better athlete than many of them, but they still were better than I was as a coach because they could see when I couldn't see. I thought, that's great, because I'm not better than anybody, but I do have the skills that I can help people.

That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right