“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.” IfsMenHumansHandsFormWinningLeftDifferencesBrainCuttingGroupsVictoryTasteCreaturesMembersEssentialsFingersDefeatVariousBonesDamageLeft HandMutilation Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.” TwoEnoughHappinessSuccessWinningBrainToo MuchBallsTwo Things Author:Paul Newman
“It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.” HumansMayHas BeensWarWholeWinningBrainPrinciplesGroupsHugePressureGapsClosestWarfareInferiorsApesHuman BrainHominids Author:Jane Goodall
“[Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.” HumansBodyHandsWinningHuman BeingsBrainWonderfulEvolutionGunElectricTicketsElephantsClayLotteryRazorsOne DirectionPigeonsWirelessHaresAdaptable Author:Beryl Markham
“Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsHeartArtSoulFeelingsDreamBodyWinningBrainAirHusbandDemandHighestArt IsBreatheFavorsMy HusbandTyrantsLife Dream Author:Rosa Bonheur
“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.” LooksHandsEyeNightWinningSimpleBrainPoetPrayingBattleDespairRainSoldierDelightI RealizedInventionTitlesGrantsConsideringSovereigntyGalaxyUnderwearWalkersHutsFrecklesAnything And EverythingNew EyesMy SoldierSeesaw Author:Matthea Harvey
“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.” MadeMotherGirlWinningBehindsBrainAdviceBrotherRedLipsNewspapersMy BrotherTerritoryHalloweenSuggestionsCostumesLipstickSweatersBrasRed LipsRed LipstickInspirational HalloweenCashmereHalloween Costume Author:Ann Hood
“(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.” WinningBrainSummerGoldSevenOlympicsMedalGold MedalsSwimmer Author:Mark Spitz