Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.
A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.
To be a star and stay a star, I think you've got to have a certain air of arrogance about you, a cockiness, a swagger on the field that says, "I can do this and you can't stop me. " I know that I play baseball with this air of arrogance, but I think it's lacking in a lot of guys who could have the potential to be stars.
Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.
What you have to do in certain situations, that's called situational hitting.
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.
I’m very busy with schoolwork, of course. " "How can she be?" said Ron in horror. "We’re on vacation!
If you want to serve the age, betray it.
Everyone accepts the abstraction of Bach. My work aspires to the same kind of abstraction, which is so engaging that you're distracted from asking about what it means. So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. Once it's in the viewer's eyes my job will be judged on whether or not it is engaging and pulls you in to a kind of intelligence or poetic something going on there that makes it sustainable to look at.