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It's What You Do:Not When You Do It
United Technologies Corporation, in Charles Swindoll, Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, p.104
It's What You Do:Not When You Do It
United Technologies Corporation, in Charles Swindoll, Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, p.104
- Ted Williams, at age 42, slammed a home run in his last official time at bat.
- Mickey Mantle, age 20, hit 23 home runs his first full year in the major leagues.
- Golda Meir was 71 when she became Prime Minister of Israel.
- William Pitt II was 24 when he became Prime minister of Great Britain.
- George Bernard Shaw was 94 when one of his plays was first produced.
- Mozart was just seven when his first composition was published.
- Now how about this? Benjamin Franklin was a newspaper columnist at 16 and a framer of the United States Constitution when he was 81. You're never too young or too old if you've got talent.
- Mickey Mantle, age 20, hit 23 home runs his first full year in the major leagues.
Let's recognize that age has little to do with ability.
