Will Harris

Will Harris
William Taylor Harrisis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies...
smart men lazy
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
teaching fire inspire
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
reality color political
Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.
facts bed embarrassing
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
truth discovery tools
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
mind filth weakness
Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
funny baseball player
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
new-york lust ego
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.
wall weak-will justice
It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
book effectiveness broken
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be....
country greatness patriotism
It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
friendship horse sacrifice
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
imagination world imagine
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
achievement risk significant
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.