"Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process."

“Everyone thinks, "Oh, it'd be easy to just go scout a game." It's not. Because you end up watching the game and not actually focusing [on scouting].”

“Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.”

“Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.”

“How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something”

Source : Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

“The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1995). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, Random House Canada

“Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)”

“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”

“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.14, Broadview Press