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...
imagination discipline mind
A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
independent dislike-someone tests
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
integrity evil looks
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
attitude hate shadow
Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
appreciation applause interruptions
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
people immortality eternal-life
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
art empathy listening
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
education college mind
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
men coats looks
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
appreciation loss swings
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
mother father parent
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
children mistake lying
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
couple divorce should-have
Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.
war unique men
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.