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“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”

Looks Guy Games Winning Realizing Differences Tough Baseball Bigger Twenties Luck Buddy Pitcher Nineteen

Author:Warren Spahn

“I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.”

People Years Young Differences Successful Five Generations Worst Twenties Five Years Being Successful Worst Things Twenty Five Qualitative Older Generation

Author:Cornel West

“You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.”

Thinking Knows Littles Character Use Realizing Differences Interesting Deals Standing Crosses Twenties Symbolism Billboards

Author:Paul Schrader

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.”

Age Process Differences Duty Twenties Limitation Engaged Who We Are Forty Discovering Impunity

Author:W. H. Auden

“There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.”

World Use Certain Hours Differences Common Four Minutes This World Twenties Seconds Sixty Sixty Minutes

Author:Lou Holtz

“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.”

Differences Generations Behavior Twenties Appearance Breeding Selective Mammals Selective Breeding

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom