Word: saneness
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...appears pretty inconceivable that any sane rower would choose to make the jump from the heavyweight division down to the lightweight division, but there are a brave few who decide to make the commitment and take the risk...
...Americans] live in a campaign that is 18 months long, and no sane person would pay close attention to the campaign for a year and a half,” Patterson said. “That may make sense for pundits and for people like me. There’s always those campaign junkies out there—they’re like Red Sox fans. For most citizens, we overtax them. Our campaigns just last too long...
Dancing keeps me sane. If I’m not in the studio rehearsing for a couple of hours each day, I can’t even focus on my schoolwork. Dance is amazing because it can serve so many emotional and intellectual functions. If I’ve had a great day I can get into the studio and express that, just live in that joy. If I’m stressed, I can dance something more aggressive and get out a lot of anger. And if I need to procrastinate from schoolwork, I can sit down with...
...Mind is a play about delusion. It’s difficult to write a play about delusion, and it’s equally tricky to stage one. It’s usually not too hard to get an audience to relate to a story about sane characters in normal situations, but anybody who stages a play about delusion doesn’t have the benefit of that automatic connection with the audience. Instead, that connection has to be established by the company in other ways: by keeping the play’s pace as brisk as can be, by making...
...even let him tour the engine room. Champollion died at 40. Fischer never defended his world title. He declined into irascibility and then obscurity. What happened to him? A chess master once said, "Chess is not something that drives people mad. Chess is something that keeps mad people sane." Which is to say that genius may lie not only in having a gift but in lacking something crucial as well. Reading these books, one feels grateful for being just a little stupid...