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#archery

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Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.


Geena Davis


#archery #had #i #know #later

Archery requires very sensitive muscles.


Im Dong-Hyun


#muscles #requires #sensitive #very

I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!


Jennifer Lawrence


#also #archery #climbing #combat #done

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.


Miranda Leek


#dad #keeps #me #piano #playing

You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child.


Eugen Herrigel


#art #life #porup #writing #zen

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.


Eugen Herrigel


#art #porup #swordsmanship #writing #zen

Everything I did in P.E. was just awful. Archery was just something that we did as a father/daughter activity, and it just kind of grew out of that, really.


Miranda Leek


#archery #awful #daughter #did #everything

In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.


Miranda Leek


#beautiful #broken #flow #force #good

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprose.


Eugen Herrigel


#porup #writing #zen #art

The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.


Eugen Herrigel


#art #life #porup #writing #zen






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