QUOTE A DAY - Nov. 6, 2012

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Ever hear of "Being In The Zone"? This is a special feeling that can happen in ANY field but is most closely associated with sports. But it can and SHOULD be applied to every field.

Today's quotes explores what this is. I also wrote a short essay that you might like to check out: "Being In The Zone".

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
But I just hadda show 'im. Just hadda show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's REALLY great. You know, like anything can be great, anything can be great. I don't care, BRICKLAYING can be great, if a guy knows.

If he knows what he's doing and why and if he can make it come off. When I'm goin', I mean, when I'm REALLY goin' I feel like a... like a jockey must feel. He's sittin' on his horse, he's got all that speed and that power underneath him...he's comin' into the stretch, the pressure's on 'im, and he KNOWS... just feels... when to let it go and how much.

Cause he's got everything workin' for 'im: timing, touch. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right and you KNOW you're right. It's like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue's part of me. You know, it's uh - pool cue, it's got nerves in it. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in it. Feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just KNOW. You make shots that nobody's ever made before. I can play that game the way... NOBODY'S ever played it before.
--Fast Eddie from 'The Hustler'

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
--Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
--Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became
dissatisfied with my own.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
It's a perfect combination of...violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility...When it happens I want to stop the match and grab the microphone and shout, "That's what it's all about." Because it is. It's not the big prize I'm going to win at the end of the match, or anything else.

It's just having done something that's totally pure and having experienced the perfect emotion, and I'm always sad that I can't communicate that feeling right at the moment it's happening.
--Billie Jean King quotes in 'Playing In The Zone'

It's an elusive and profound state, for many a spiritual experience, where the mind/body enter a higher state of harmonious functioning. It is most commonly known as "The Zone" and less commonly as "Flow."
--Othon Kesend, PhD & Sports Psychologist


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

ANSWER: Cicero

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