#sigh

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. ↗

— Tom Seaver

#aim #baseball #consistency #dwell #end

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#behold #brave #brave man #conflict #direct

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. ↗

— Patti Smith

#insight #intelligent #kind #like #people

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. ↗

— Tony Snow

#believe #cocky #come #confers #enough

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#destroyed #habitat #honest #important #important things

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#difficulty #early #economics #getting #i

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling. ↗

— David Strathairn

#builds #chord #compelling #each #hear

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#customs #every #evident #fail #insight