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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ↗

— Walter Pater

#conjecture #each #ever #experience #group

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. ↗

— Walter Pater

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You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#higher #higher level #level #mark #others

At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home. ↗

— Michel Patini

#cut #difficult #enormous #feel #history

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus. ↗

— Michel Patini

#been #bonus #competition #during #eat

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time. ↗

— Michel Patini

#football #making #me #more #pass

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#branch #development #emergence #find #food

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past. ↗

— Michel Patini

#any #case #championships #cups #european

But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#awhile #because #chancellor #courses #doing