"Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power-just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-opts it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.35
("이성과 이성적 본성이 각 사람에게 이성적 힘을 부여한 것처럼, 자연이 어떤 장애물이나 반대를 자신의 목적으로 돌리고, 운명적인 질서 속에서 자신의 자리를 정하고 그것을 받아들이는 것처럼, 모든 이성적인 사람은 어떤 장애물도 자신의 목적을 위한 원료로 바꿀 수 있습니다." – 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 명상록, 8.35)
At five feet three inches tall, Muggsy Bogues was the shortest player ever to play professional basketball. Throughout his career, he was snickered at, underestimated, and counted out.
But Bogues succeeded by turning his height into the very thing that made him nationally known. Some people looked at his size as a curse, but he saw it as a blessing. He found the advantages contained within it. In fact, on the court small size has many advantages: speed and quickness, the ability to steal the ball from unsuspecting (and significantly taller) players, to say nothing of the fact that players just plain ...
