"After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play"

-- Tommy Farr

#Children Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Play Quotes

“Being a judge is sometimes like raising children: litigants get the time they need, not necessarily the time they want, and you have to earn people's respect by communicating to them that you're going to listen, follow the law and make a fair decision.”
“I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.”
“Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've yet had the opportunity to tap on camera. Lab Rats was a wonderful opportunity for me to just go be a goofy buffoon, which I love. It was exhilarating to listen to all the funny lines the writers would come up with on the spot and then get to play them immediately.”

Source : "Olympus Actor Graham Shiels: Handling negative thoughts and the influence of The Secret". Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.”
“I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.”
“Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.”
“It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”

Source : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.76, University of Texas Press
“Ones vision is not a road map but a compass.”

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