#early

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#awareness #bonds #citizens #clearly #compelled

In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete. ↗

— John Legend

#athlete #early #football #i #kids

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#blues #city #complicated #difficult #dog

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#i #intellectually #oriented #very

Afore me! It is so very late, That we may call it early by and by. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#funny #late-to-bed #funny

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again? ↗

— St. Ignatius of Antioch

#early-christianity #patristics #saints #men

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race. ↗

— Stuart Rothenberg

#al gore #any #anybody #around #bush

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#basically #duck #early #film #go

I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles. ↗

— Alexandr Dolgopolov

#ball #bigger #early #get #hit

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

#employers #gap #i #likely #long