"I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself."

-- Jim Abbott

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“Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Source : "Not Waving but Drowning" l. 11 (1957)
“For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.”
“The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.”
“I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”

Source : "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.”
“Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.”
“I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.”

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