#ear

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#childhood #ease #forgotten #joy #like

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#autonomy #defend #fist #i #learned

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#big city #city #companionship #early #friendship

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. ↗

— Robert A. Taft

#deterrent #earning #effort #hard #hard work

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation. ↗

— Willie Mays

#calling #had #important #into #jackie

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was. ↗

— Willie Mays

#depends #every #games #got #how

Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me. ↗

— Willie Mays

#help #how #i #learn #life

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#certain #certain things #hear #negative #never

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#criticized #ear #goes #in the past #me

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#come #i #lie #long #long way