There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs in his attitude a motivation above and beyond winning.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
When thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.
What people want above all is order.
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
May your trails be crooked winding lonesome dangerous leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.