“Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.” MenFeelsHumansStillsOpportunityAbilityRacePossibilityHe ManEdgesGravesGiantsSproutsAcorns Book:The Miracle of Right Thought Source: The Miracle of Right Thought
“You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts” IfsMenDoeMatterLightCan DoSinHellEffectsHe ManMurderEdgesTricksCardsGentleSlopesMilestoneCumulativeScrewtape LettersSignposts Author:C. S. Lewis
“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.” MenTwoEnoughHandsHappensRunningLawUniverseLeftHeavenSoundNumbersCareersSuccessfulMagicHe ManEqualShotsBasesAffairEdgesExtremesDrivingInchesEntitledEmergenciesMarginsCalculationsCollisionRibbonsSuccessful CareerProjectile Book:Oil! Source: Oil!
“It [boxing] helps my hand-eye coordination, my stamina, my footwork, and it gives me that competitive edge and drive. And in the ring it's mano-a-mano. So it helps you build that arrogance, that cockiness, that confidence in yourself that the man that stands in front of you isn't going to beat you, and that translates to the court.” MenGivingHelpingHandsEyeFrontsHe ManBeatsGive MeCourtEdgesRingsArroganceBoxingTranslateStaminaConfidence In YourselfCoordinationCockinessFootwork Author:Carmelo Anthony
“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.” MenArtScienceOrderEasyStruggleMysteryCreationHe ManBalanceChaosEdgesFamiliarNoveltySynthesisEasy Life Book:Uncommon Sense Source: Uncommon Sense