Metias Journals Quotes & Sayings

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball. — Mike Piazza

Physically and genetically, our brains may not have evolved much in the last forty thousand years - but our minds have. A baby born today would be much the same as a baby born tens of thousands of years ago. But if we were able to compare the intricate neural structure of an adult brain in today's modern society with that of an adult brain from forty thousand years ago, we'd find huge differences. — Daniel J. Siegel

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody. — Craig T. Nelson

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. — Lao-Tzu

Gamache knew people were like homes. Some were cheerful and bright, some gloomy. Some could look good on the outside but feel wretched on the interior. And some of the least attractive homes, from the outside, were kindly and warm inside.
He also knew the first few rooms were for public consumption. It was only in going deeper that he'd find the reality. And finally, inevitably, there was the last room, the one we keep locked, and bolted and barred, even from ourselves. Especially from ourselves. — Louise Penny

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it. — Hannah More

I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks. — Heinrich Von Pierer

It doesn't feel that short if you're in it. It feels like a lifetime. — Rick Yancey

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings ... — Haile Selassie

A choice to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the whispers of intuitive wisdom from the heart. — Steven Redhead