Famous Baseball Pitchers Quotes & Sayings

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. — John Banville

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise. — Abraham H. Maslow

Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death. — N. T. Wright

Programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your groceries at the same time. — Steve McConnell

As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is. — Henry Rosovsky

One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels. — Jack McDevitt

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame. — Orrin Woodward

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. — Questlove

If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something ... — Jim Garrett