#les

It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#bit #done #easy #feel #few

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#after #crazy #eat #film #focused

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal. ↗

— Victor Salva

#choices #experience #how #human #human animal

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#had #hopes #i #intended #masses

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#blending #create #culture #educational #effort

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#certain point #difference #great #less #lesser

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#may #never #our #personally #principles

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. ↗

— George Santayana

#institution #less #making #more #others

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble

That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#auditioned #back #because #center #come