"The best players in any high-stakes field - business, entertainment, law, surgery, as well as sport - recognize that pressure occurs at the moments when meaningful accomplishment is possible. In fact, that is the reason why performers perform: for the opportunity to tackle challenges head on, to do something significant, to demonstrate what their hard work and talent can produce."

-- John Eliot

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“We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.”
“Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.”
“The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.”
“The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.”

Source : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt
“I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.”
“When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.”
“A child's a plaything for an hour.”

Source : Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb “Works: The essays of Elia”
“Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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