"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

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Heywood Broun

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“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”

Source : Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.”
“Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.”
“The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.”
“Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despiseâ€”Vivian”
“One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.”
“There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.”
“Religion is love; in no case is it logic.”

Source : My Apprenticeship ch. 2 (1926)

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