Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
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At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.
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..the sort of white crepe dough with which the person is thickly buttered in the 'Haute Pâtes' series, Dubuffet made in 1946 was, by its proximity to the tar, dyed the color of burnt bread like a used Meerschaum pipe.
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With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.
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People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
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It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.
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I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?
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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
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A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one’s wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.
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I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
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Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.
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With a sort of mental squint.
