#yin

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. ↗

— Serena Williams

#down #gun #keep #playing #shooting

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#benefit #between #each #friendly #friendship

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted

There is nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitor. ↗

— Frank Howard Clark

#explain #help #more #nothing #than

Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fall—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon them— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#death #dying #love #transience #beauty

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that’s why he's number two. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#best #bizarre #competing #competition #competitor

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities. ↗

— Julian Clary

#celebrities #hideous #making #ourselves #relentless

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#completely #every #go #i #learned

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#guys #i #looking #looking forward #lot

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#chance #concern #done #facing #four