"And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher."

-- Nolan Ryan

#Careers Quotes #League Quotes #Honest Quotes

“I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.”
“If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.”

Source : Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.336, University of Chicago Press
“I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.”
“When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring”

Source : Margaret Wise Brown (1997). “Pussy Willow”, Golden Books
“I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.”
“There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.”
“It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack â€“ never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.”
“And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.”

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