Arena Quotes - Page 5

• The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Art, Player, Perfect

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Space, Design, Events

  "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952

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• The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

  Bear Grylls

  Survival, Desert, Never Change

  "4 survival tips start-ups can learn from Bear Grylls" by Lucy Liddiard, www.businesscomparison.com. 2016.

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• The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.

  Publilius Syrus

  Entrepreneur, Plans, Lays

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• But, that’s the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public arena, to control opinion, to make sure that the fundamental decisions that determine how the world is going to be run - which includes production, commerce, distribution, thought, social policy, foreign policy, everything - are not in the hands of the public, but rather in the hands of highly concentrated private power. In effect, tyranny unaccountable to the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Fate, Hands

  "On Microsoft and Corporate Control of the Internet". Interview with Anna Couey, chomsky.info. May 6, 1998.

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• Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

  Steven Furtick

  Prayer, Ability

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.153, Multnomah

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• The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Chess, Uncommon, Endgame

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• It doesn't matter what else is going on. When you walk into your arena or your - whatever you excel at, you're there to take care of the job that you have to do.

  Michael Phelps

  Jobs, Care, Matter

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• Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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• One’s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors one’s sense of identity, it shapes one’s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.

  John Armstrong

  Attitude, Ideas, Color

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• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Powerful, Real, Evil

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• The dual substance of Christ - the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God. [...] has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me. [...] My principle anguish and source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. [...] And my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Army, Men, Two

  "The Last Temptation of Christ". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Simon and Schuster, Prologue, 2012.

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• What keeps you motivated? The challenge of putting all the elements of a team together and seeing how you do and what you become is the thing that I still enjoy. I also enjoy the associations and relationships with the players and other coaches - to be in the arena, so to speak. I still enjoy that. I'm also at the point, though, that if we're not doing well - it's tough enough as it is - that I'm not going to be hanging on just to be hanging on. Because it's not anything I need from an ego standpoint or anything else. I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Player, Justice

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• Don't be afraid of new arenas.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational

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• So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start trolling, ignoring them isn't really an option anymore. They are gradually making trolling normative. We have to start feeding the trolls: feeding them with achingly polite emails and comments, reminding them of how billions of people prefer to communicate with each other, every day, in the most unregulated arena of all: courteously.

  Caitlin Moran

  People, Feminist, Email

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• Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Thinking, People

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• That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Life Is

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• Horses are very keen on body language, and what I refer to as “presence”, and expression. They know quite a bit about you before you ever get to ‘em. They can read things about you clear across an arena.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Animal, Expression

  "The Real “Horse Whisperer”". Interview with Andrew Howley, voices.nationalgeographic.org. June 16, 2011.

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• The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations of comfort or convenience to stand in his way. His most outstanding characteristic is his objectivity, his ability to rise above the dust of the arena, to resist the hypnotising effects of words and the blind passion of cults, political or religious.

  Robert S. de Ropp

  Religious, Passion, Objectivity

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• Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Entrepreneur

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Data, Choices

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

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• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

  Jose Rizal

  Children, School, Effort

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dread mystery. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Father, Struggle, Kissing

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

  Dan Millman

  Sports, Art, Shining

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Cameras, Littles

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