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archer caring winning
Zhuangzi When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.
archer skills two
Zhuangzi When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.
archer hands skills
Zhuangzi An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.
archer feet arrows
Zig Ziglar Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!
archer fate white
James Russell Lowell Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
archer thinking arrows
Paulo Coelho I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.
archer practice ordinary
John Flanagan An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.
archery perfect battle
Geena Davis The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.
sky color television
William Gibson The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
sky color evening
Sarah Addison Allen It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
sky
Sara Gruen The sky the sky- same as it always was.
skylines height needs
Santiago Calatrava It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
sky knowing looks
Sarah Orne Jewett Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.
sky water forgiving
Willa Cather [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
sky mood
Virginia Woolf I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
sky roots tree
William Blake Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
sky religion favors
William Cowper Religion, richest favor of the skies.
rivers bird black
Rebecca West Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
rivers water abundance
William Whipple The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
rivers appreciate water
Sarah Ban Breathnach The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
rivers water dip
William Blake Dip him in the river who loves water.
rivers mourning tongue
W. H. Auden Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
rivers rocks choices
Ursula K. Le Guin To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.
rivers land trying
Ursula K. Le Guin What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
rivers growing language
Robert MacNeil Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
rivers today fountainhead
Wilbur Smith History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.