Plates Quotes - Page 13

• Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.

  Wes Fesler

  Order, Tasks, Add

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• When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

  Joe

  Purpose, Hitting

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• You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you step up to the plate worrying that you're going to strike out, the odds are that you're going to strike out. Not doing a large ambitious work because you're convinced that Danger Lurks Around Every Corner, the old 'I might be dead this time next year,' is a waste of the Inner Radiance that found you. It's like life insurance. It's betting against yourself. It's blowing out your own flame before someone beats you to it.

  Dave Sim

  Life, Work, Odds

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• Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.

  Danny Murtaugh

  Sports, Running, Team

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• The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

  Halle Berry

  Christmas, Mom, Cookies

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• We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on the plate.

  Nadar

  Eye, Views, Bird

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• ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Energy, East

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.180, Penguin

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• I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Bread, Arsenic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

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• One curve I'll always remember was when I was pitching for Pittsburgh. Terry Kennedy was a young player with St. Louis. I threw him an 0-2 curve and it snapped. Terry's reaction was to swing straight down, like he was chopping the plate with an axe. It was the last out of the inning. After I ran off the mound, I looked over at the St. Louis dugout. There were players rolling around on the floor, laughing. Poor Terry. I'll have to admit that was a hell of a curveball.

  Bert Blyleven

  Player, Curves, Swings

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• The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

  Bert Blyleven

  Hurt, Kids, Years

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• I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

  Mariano Rivera

  Feet, Boxes, Changed

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• I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

  Roz Chast

  Cartoon, Littles, Reason

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• I definitely have to keep stepping up to the plate and be aggressive when he does that.

  Lance Stephenson

  Doe, Aggressive

  "After Game 3 loss, Lance Stephenson says LeBron showing 'sign of weakness'" by Shandel Richardson, articles.sun-sentinel.com. May 25, 2014.

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• People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, People, Giving

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• In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

  Bryan Volpenhein

  Perfect, Goal, Focus

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• You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.

  Bobby Murcer

  Thinking, Swings, Focus

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• The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

  John Updike

  Football, Mother, Morning

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• We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

  Marc Maron

  Pain, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'

  Charlize Theron

  Believe, Hard Work, One Day

  "AWFJ Women On Film – Charlize Theron Talks "Burning Plain" – Jen Yamato interviews". Interview with Jen Yamato, awfj.org. September 24, 2009.

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• I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

  Marc Jacobs

  Morning, Couple, Hours

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• I had a box of Ritz crackers, and on the back of the box, they had all these suggestions for what to put on top of the Ritz. Try it with cheese. Try it with peanut butter. Come on, man, they're crackers, that's why I got them. I like crackers! I didn't buy them because they're little edible plates!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I don't know if you've ever fallen asleep whilst eating a plate of cauliflower, and then woken up, and thought you were in the clouds.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Clouds

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• My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.

  Halton Arp

  Stars, Science, Clouds

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• Next time you bump your head, try to imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your skull at 50 miles per hour. Then, only then should you feel compelled to tell me that I'm wrong about my opinions. For all these things have happened in the name of science. They continue in abundance till this day.

  Rikki Rockett

  Names, Skulls, Trying

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