"I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there."

#Emotional Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Layers Quotes

“The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.”
“you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”
“Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.”
“The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439
“Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. Itâ€™s always the unspoken word and whatâ€™s happening behind someoneâ€™s eyes that makes it so rich.”
“How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.”
“The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.”
“Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept up on me.”

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