Mike Young famous quotes

I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.
-- Mike Young

#Team #Reality #Thinking

All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice.
-- Mike Young

#Choices

All poetry is political, to some degree.
-- Mike Young

#Political #Degrees #Poetry Is

If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.
-- Mike Young

#Thinking #Anxiety #Trying

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.
-- Mike Young

#Spiritual #Thinking #Goal

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.
-- Mike Young

#Attention #World #Way

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.
-- Mike Young

#Trying #Way #Becoming

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.