"Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasnâ€™t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh."

-- Mel Ott

#Luck Quotes #Balls Quotes #Born Quotes

“I struggled for a long time to get anything published.”
“We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters”
“The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.
“It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.”

Source : Leo Strauss, Hilail Gildin (1989). “An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays”, p.317, Wayne State University Press
“The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.”
“Action is movement with intelligence”
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.”
“[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.”

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