"You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches"

-- Dennis Eckersley

#Two Quotes #Long Quotes #Sticks Quotes

“I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.”
“Heâ€™s worth fighting for, but I wonâ€™t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.”
“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side which first employs air power as it should be employed. Germany, entangled in the meshes of vast land campaigns, cannot now disengage her air power for a strategically proper application. She missed victory through air power by a hair's breadth in 1940. . . . We ourselves are now at the crossroads.”
“After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.”
“The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.”
“This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in”
“Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.”
“That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.”

Source : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.191, Da Capo Press

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