“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.” MindDifferentStatesSpiritualSportsAchieveMusicianPerformancesInstrumentsPlanesInternalsMotivational SportsGreat MusicGreat MusicianGreat Performance Author:Arnold Palmer
“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.” WellsChildrenLongRealSelfLinesViewsAchieveDangerPossibilityHabitDisciplineSafeTransformationPermanentFirmInternalsLastingExcessSelf DisciplineFrustratingRecalcitrant Author:Mary Blakely
“When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMeanDoeJobsMovingDoorsAchievePagesSpendingInternalsGoing AwayPassagesInvestigationTransparentSpending Time Author:Claudia Rankine
“Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. America and Africa collaborated to give the world jazz. We'll call it even.” WorldGivingStatesAmericaViewsNovelAchieveEuropeJazzInternalsGreatest Gifts Author:Teju Cole