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Kevin Maney

"When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instinct level. Athletes in a state of flow describe knowing what will happen just before it does - knowing how a defender will react to a certain move an instant before doing it. Of course, if you know what will happen, you can succeed at doing it, so an athlete in flow has a stand-out game."

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Kevin Maney

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“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.”
“Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them.”
“A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”
“You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.”
“Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.”
“Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side of the divine; it means letting go our sane self control, that control which gives us the illusion of safety. But safety is only an illusion, and letting it go is part of listening to the silence, and to the spirit.”
“The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.”

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