Enter The Arena Quotes

#1. In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

#2. Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

Barack Obama

#3. Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Cornelia had been living, for the past four years, with a hoist.

Jarrett McCall

#5. A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon.

George R R Martin

#6. Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Robert McKee

#7. To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Simon Callow

#8. Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Victor Davis Hanson

#9. I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Boz Scaggs

#10. The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'

Jim Webb

#11. I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Sting

#12. When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

Steven Pressfield

#13. Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

Lou Holtz

#14. Your soul is a storeroom of great riches.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. The crisis of democracy as when normally passive and apathetic populations become organized and seek to enter the political arena to pursue their interests and demands, threatening stability and order.

Noam Chomsky

#16. I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

Ami Ayalon

#17. During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.? The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#18. Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Mary Oliver

#19. Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

#20. I'm such a clever Toad.

Kenneth Grahame

#21. I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.

Carolina Herrera

#22. Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

Peter Heller

#23. Say: If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.

Laura Miller