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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
I wanted to be in the big leagues, not stuck in the minor leagues.
Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.
So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.
Coming from a great college program like F.S.U., everybody had one common goal, and that was to win. You get into the minor leagues, and whether it's right or wrong, it's a selfish game.
Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.
What was once a comparatively minor threat - people hacking for fun or for bragging rights - has turned into full-blown economic espionage and extremely lucrative cyber crime.
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.
I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones... I read nothing but Sara Teasdale.
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.
Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.
People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.
I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.
Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.
When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.
There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.
I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.
To go through this life and see it through - what it really is - and not be insane or addicted, is a minor miracle for anyone.
Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.
Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.
There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.
Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!
I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers.
And you learn [how to win] starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.
Being on tour, it's really easy to stop knowing people that you want to know, because you're not sharing experiences; you're not existing in the minor moments of somebody's life.
When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.
Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.
