David Schmidtz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
-- David Schmidtz

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If youâ€™re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isnâ€™t.
-- David Schmidtz

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If your main goal is to show that your heart is in the right place, then your heart is not in the right place.
-- David Schmidtz

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If you’re trying to prove your heart is in the right place, it isn’t.
-- David Schmidtz

#Heart #Trying #Prove

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.
No one man is superior to the game.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.
For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

David Schmidtz famous quotes

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