"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."

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Source : "The Conduct Of Life". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1951.

Lewis Mumford

#Life Quotes #Art Quotes #Practice Quotes

“You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing”

Source : "Ivanovic refuses to look back on season to forget for Chelsea". www.mirror.co.uk. June 24, 2011.
“First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. He let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform, In order for me to inspire people. And I realize that.”

Source : "Durant's Emotional MVP Acceptance Speech: 'I'd Like to Thank God for Changing My Life'" by Eric Corpus, www.christianpost.com. May 7, 2014.
“An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.”
“I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.”
“It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.”
“The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. If he needs me, I'm there for him. As a director, I like to have the producer there with me. As a producer, I don't want to be there because I happen to be a director first and foremost, I don't want to "that guy."”
“Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.”

Source : Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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