As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses. " Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters. . . . What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty
I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of officiating done by announcers, local announcers. Sometimes you should listen to a game from both feeds, and you'd think you were listening to completely different games.
What feeds a fighters soul is victory.
What feeds me destroys me.
During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.
As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.
For far too many people in the world, the vicious cycle of financial deprivation also feeds into the vicious cycle of sleep deprivation. If you're working two or three jobs and struggling to make ends meet, "get more sleep" is probably not going to be near the top of your priorities list.
And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
Art feeds off art. . . and artists feed off artists.
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news organizations. We saw it in our political rallies as well.
No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.