'...Everything we do is conditioned by the attitude of mind we bring to it. This is true in some degree of all human activities, not merely of works of art, though here the phenomenon is most easily isolated. An athlete may succeed, not because he has a better physique or is better trained than other competitors, but because he has more heart in the figurative sense. It takes a very passion of will to liberate the final reserves of the body, and a similar fierce desire on the emotional and intellectual plane to express from the mind its final achievement.'
from Plaque With Laurel by M. Barnard Eldershaw (Part III, Chapter III)
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