No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Excellence
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Luck, Ability, Determination
There is a singing ecstasy in good work.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Work
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Blessings, Happiness, Joy, Gratitude, Appreciation
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Self Confidence, Assurance, Confidence
Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity’s call.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Opportunities, Opportunity
Each generation produces its squad of “moderns” with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Criticism
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Courage, Bravery, Eating
My clearest recollection of a long-ago interview with Thomas A. Edison is of a single sentence that was painted and hung on a wall in his room. In effect, the sentence was, “It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.” That is tragically true. Some of think, more of us think we think, and most of us don’t even think of thinking. The result is a somewhat cockeyed world.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Thinking
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Home
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
—Channing Pollock
Topics: Critics, Criticism
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- Don DeLillo American Author
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- Joseph Heller American Novelist
- Moss Hart American Playwright
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