"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."

-- Carlos Castaneda

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.”
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
“No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.”
“Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place”
“It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.”
“A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.”
“The competition is a big part of it [racing] - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, " think I'll do something different." This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.”
“I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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