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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


Eugene Herrigel

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EUGENE FIELD I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath chang...
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EUGENE FIELD Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal lig...
EUGENE FIELD But I, when I undress me Each night upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me, With apple pie and ...
EUGENE FIELD Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendul...
EUGENE FIELD He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time
EUGENE FIELD Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
EUGENE FIELD Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged fami...
EUGENE KENNEDY I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing...
EUGENE ORMANDY Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the...
EUGENE DEBS The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and...
EUGENE KENNEDY Living is abnormal.
EUGENE IONESCO If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of fi...
EUGENE JARECKI Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
EUGENE ORMANDY Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you ...
EUGENE IONESCO An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.
EUGENE FAMA Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their G's and saying things in a folksy sort of ...
EUGENE JARECKI High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated an...
EUGENE MIRMAN The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our p...
EUGENE JARECKI Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? W...
EUGENE CERNAN