No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.
Max Baucus, Politician (1941) |
Annie Jump Cannon, Scientist (1863) |
Elliott Carter, Composer (1908) |
Mos Def, Musician (1973) |
Teri Garr, Actress (1944) |
Harold Hamm, Businessman (1945) |
Jim Harrison, Writer (1937) |
Jermaine Jackson, Musician (1954) |
Stu Jackson, Coach (1955) |
John F. Kerry, Politician (1943) |
Bob Bartlett, Politician (1968) |
James J. Gibson, Psychologist (1979) |
Christian Lous Lange, Politician (1938) |