#si

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#also #focusing #just #mental #optical

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#awaken #been #discovered #discovery #down

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. ↗

— Pat Riley

#attitude #best #challenges #constantly #effort

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! ↗

— Pat Riley

#contribute #declaring #each #ego #hardest

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss. ↗

— Pat Riley

#guarantees #lose #loss #permission #yourself

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company. ↗

— Pat Riley

#coach #company #considered #day-to-day #did

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. ↗

— Pat Riley

#itself #management #mission #must #opponent

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. ↗

— Terry Riley

#anything #contribution #essentially #ingredient #into

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics. ↗

— Terry Riley

#according #finite #i #i think #laws

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ↗

— Terry Riley

#been #before #had #him #i