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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awful #brevity #desperate #effort #experience

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#game #heartbreaking #losing #sense #tragedy

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#becomes #confidence #else #habit #lose

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#higher #higher level #level #mark #others

During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus. ↗

— Michel Patini

#been #bonus #competition #during #eat

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#branch #development #emergence #find #food

A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rather, it is a structure of unconscious relations and symbiotic processes. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#ideologies #ideology #institution #nor #processes

The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past. ↗

— Michel Patini

#any #case #championships #cups #european

Whenever I was on the pitch, I always tried to win. ↗

— Michel Patini

#i #i always #pitch #tried #whenever

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. ↗

— Michel Patini

#days #every #know #less #lot