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«How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.»
«If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Humility,
Vision
| Keywords:
farther, giants, shoulders
«Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.»
«I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.»
«Living in the moment, yesterday is farther away than it used to be. And, so is tomorrow. They both matter less.»
«I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.»
«If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
appearance, farther, kernel, kernels, likewise, nearer, shell
«Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Australia, California, extreme, farther, gold rush, most successful, prospecting, rush, unfortunate
«One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
deliberate, farther, hears, howls, orderly, primitive, shiver, shivering, shivers, sinks, supernatural, supernatural being, terror