"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need……" — Michael Lewis
"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."
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64 Quotes by Michael Lewis
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Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The…
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The…
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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children…
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When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
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He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his…
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My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like…
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It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar…
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One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one…
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Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.…
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Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
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I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national…
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More Different Languages Quotes
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When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.
— Antonio Banderas
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and…
— Bono
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a…
— Scilla Elworthy
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Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture.…
— Thomas Kuhn
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual…
— Charles Darwin
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There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different…
— John Denver
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"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak.…
— Josh Groban
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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking…
— June Jordan
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I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a…
— Miriam Toews
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any…
— Robert Menzies
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