#instead

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#developed #girl #gun #i #i think

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#bad habit #bit #daughters #down #envy

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#always #because #comes #extend #extending

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#blaze #directors #doing #else #even

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#american #american culture #baskets #beads #contemporary

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#advantage #attitude #because #constructed #great

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#equivalent #head #instead #own #reading

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#being #i #i think #instead #involved

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization. ↗

— Robert Shea

#i #instead #may #necessity #organization