The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.
People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.
The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.
Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard that they would be forced to call the first time-out just to catch their breath. At that first time-out the opponents would know, and we would know that they knew, who was in better condition. This has a psychological impact.
Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.
Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
Though God alone never tastes woe, _x000D_ Yet that man is happy, and poets sing of him, _x000D_ Who conquers with hand or swift foot _x000D_ And wins the greatest of prizes _x000D_ By steadfastness and strength.
It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close
...rapid motion through space elates one.
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