"Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means."

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Source : 1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

F. R. Leavis

#Mean Quotes #Experience Quotes #Quality Quotes

“The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.”
“A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.”
“To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.”

Source : Scott Tinley (2015). “Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World”, p.232, Hatherleigh Press
“It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.”
“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
“Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”
“I have not been recognized.”
“The truth will make you odd.”

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