"Hell, Lou (Gehrig) it took fifteen years to get you out of a game. Sometimes I'm out in fifteen minutes."

-- Lefty Gomez

#Years Quotes #Games Quotes #Fifteen Quotes

“The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.”

Source : John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright
“All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.”
“Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.”
“The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.”

Source : Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.54, Oldcastle Books
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”
“Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.”
“I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.”
“The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.”

Source : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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