"Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well."

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Source : W Timothy Gallwey, Barry Green (2015). “The Inner Game of Music”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

Barry Green

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“Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.”

Source : Reply to reader email on "The View from Chaos Manor" - personal blog, www.jerrypournelle.com. February 21, 2001.
“There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.”
“First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.”
“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”
“A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.”
“I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more.”
“[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I start with a story and then I make sculpture from that story, it's just that the stories become more and more elaborate.”

Source : "A Natural Love Story: Matthew Barney Talks About 'Drawing Restraint 9'" by Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2006.
“A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.”

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