#aw

People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#away #become #better #better player #coach

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#after #away #balance #competition #everyone

The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#cave #cold #dante #day #department

I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#attorney #chicago #city #downtown #dream

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#always #aware #composer #conscious #his

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#adventures #away #difference #fun #go

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love. ↗

— Billy Strayhorn

#everybody #everything #fall #government #halfway

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#awakened #changes #children #everything #everything changes

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image. ↗

— Picabo Street

#draws #excites #gets #guys #i