quotes about Contention

“Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.”

“When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.”

“She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.”

“I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.”

Source : "A conversation with lead singer of The Almost and former Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

“What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2012). “I Hunt Killers”, p.56, Random House

“I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.”

“When something goes wrong in our lives we often ask ourselves "Who was present?" and if there was ever a singular person that was present in whatever the event was when something changed our lives. If we can't get beyond that event, we become obsessed with it or it changed our life in a way that we can't make sense of. We often seek out that person because that was the last time our lives made sense.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com

“I love the magic of the studio.”

“In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.”

Source : "Judo: The Japanese Art of Self Defense". "A Complete Guide to Judo: Its Story and Practice" by Robert W. Smith, judoinfo.com. 1958.