"I think competition in any kind of activity like music, art, literature - anything that's not done with a timer - is actually impossible. So, in effect, what you're doing is you're entering the lottery. You're hoping that you play well (and that) you play your best on the day that you're heard, and you're hoping that the people who are judging will like what you do."

Source : "Not My Job: Pianist Emanuel Ax Takes A Quiz On Axe Body Spray". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 30, 2013.

Emanuel Ax

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“Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.”
“To understand is to perceive patterns.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (1959). “Historical Inevitability”
“God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.”
“To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.”
“And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.”
“I'm a feminist, yes! Very strongly.”

Source : "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.
“If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1873). “The Way to Life”, p.307
“Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.”

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