#instead

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#before #bit #brash #competitive #emotional

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #because #borrow #buy #community

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. ↗

— Robert Powell

#boy #educate #encouraged #himself #instead

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#each #ending #get #i #individual

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#around #die #else #everybody #expected

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back. ↗

— Jamie Redknapp

#back #forward #i #i am #instead

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#direct #direct experience #discursive #everything #instead

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ↗

— Robert Burns

#dying #gets #guy #instead #opera

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. ↗

— Bruce Conner

#arts #became #being #couple #dabbled

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#attractive #begin #being #doing #got