The role of the painter. . . is to project that which sees itself in him.
In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.
You face adversity all the time. I accept what lies ahead and then I do my best. You can't take things too seriously, and you can't use things as an excuse or you'll never get through.
It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.
You can either stick to your goals, or you can just go through the motions and rest on your status. But it's all about work.
If you care about the people you work with then you work harder
When I first made the team I didn't even know there was a national team. So to meit was all new. When I got asked to go on the trip to China I was 16. I said, 'well you know what I have to ask my parents. ' So I called home and I am like, 'Mom and Dad can I go to China?' They were like 'sure. '
That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.
Lent is the time for trimming the soul and scrapping the sludge off a life turned slipshod. Lent is about taking stock of time, even religious time. Lent is about exercising the control that enables us to say no to ourselves so that when life turns hard of its own accord we have the stamina to yes to its twists and turns with faith and hope. Lent is the time to make new efforts to be what we say we want to be.
One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.