John Moffitt quotes

“I just want to be happy. And I find that people that have the least in life are sometimes the happiest. And I don't have the least in life. I have enough in life. And I won't sacrifice my health for that.”
-- John Moffitt

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“To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long...”
-- John Moffitt

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“I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.”
-- John Moffitt

Source : "John Moffitt was unhappy, quits NFL". www.espn.com. November 7, 2013.

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“It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?”
-- John Moffitt

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“To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green and say, "I have seen spring in these Woods," will not do - you must Be the thing you see: You must be the dark snakes of Stems and ferny plumes of leaves, You must enter in To the small silences between The leaves, You must take your time And touch the very peace They issue from.”
-- John Moffitt

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“The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.”
-- John Moffitt

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“It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?”
-- John Moffitt

Source : "Quitting the N.F.L.: For John Moffitt, the Money Wasn’t Worth It" by Ken Belson, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2013.

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”

“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”

“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”

“Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.”

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

“You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”

“...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”

“Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.”

“This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.”