A. J. Langer Quotes

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

Focus on where you want to go, not where you don't want to go.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

You can't be a victim and heal.

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

Certainty is a cruel mindset.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

I have a great life and I'm super active.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.

Competition is healthy. It makes you work harder and strive for more and try to find that extra one or two percent in your game that you could possibly improve.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

I don't know a lot about the Scots, but I'm aware they have beaten some of the English counties in the NCL and have gone close in other matches.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.