"I am in the world only for the purpose of composing."

-- Franz Schubert

#Purpose Quotes #World Quotes #Composing Quotes

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source : Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”
“If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.”
“As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!”
“We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,”

Source : "State of the Union 2014: Obama calls for 'year of action'" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.
“Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.”
“Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.”
“The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.”
“Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.”

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