I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression. Dean Karnazes
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.Charles Darwin
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together. Alison McGhee
I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important. Merlin Olsen
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. Alex Lowe
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Eudora Welty
It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training. Michael East
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth? Mark Bittman
My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.' Robin Roberts
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.Karl Heinrich Marx
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time. Matthew Tobin Anderson
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. Arnold Palmer