Heights Quotes

Men don't pay attention to small things.

Life is a succession of lessons,

which must be lived to be understood,

and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Events will unfold as they are destined,

but human action can shape their outcomes.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

We, of this Congress and this administration,

will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

No personal significance, or insignificance,

can spare one or another of us.

The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down

in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

My uncle's dying wish

he wanted me on his lap.

He was in the electric chair.

Innovation distinguishes between

a leader and a follower.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,

you’ll start having positive results.

Reality is a sliding door.

Those who cannot work

with their hearts

achieve but a hollow,

half

hearted success that

breeds bitterness all around.

I had no future with the Dodgers,

because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey.

After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley,

you couldn't even mention Mr.

Rickey's name in front of him.

I considered Mr. Rickey

the greatest human being I had ever known.

Covenants without the sword are but words

and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Management is doing things right;

leadership is doing the right things.

The distinction between the past,

present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Creativity is just connecting things.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Who never doubted,

never half believed.

Where doubt is,

there truth is

it is her shadow.

The best art comes from honesty.

Change will not come

if we wait for some other person or some other time.