#petition

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#respect

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox... ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#cycles #despair #emotion #fear #free-will

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free. ↗

— Rumi

#games #open-secret #quatrains #secret

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#begin #belief #conviction #deep #deep conviction

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#hollywood #i #made #majority #movies

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Washington Allston

#himself #man #only #wise #wise man

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#better #compete #competitions #could #exhibitions

We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#competition #constantly #contestants #had #hers

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. ↗

— Meredith Baxter

#competitions #daughter #her #i #involved