"Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon."

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Andy Van Slyke

#Sports Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Trying Quotes

“We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvanaâ€”analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.”
“The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on theÂ 5 o' clock news.”
“I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.”
“For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.”
“A person is a process, one that leads to death...”
“I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.”
“I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.”
“I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media

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