#stand

We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed. ↗

— Mawhinney and Sagan

#emotions #learning #stress #teaching #understanding

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#home #just #just do it #preparing #real

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#boxing #i #i do #stand-up #train

Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge! ↗

— Adam Savage

#fridge #fuel #get #gotta #i

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bit #even #feel #framework #having

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

#college #comedy #doing #get #get a real

They amaze me most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though. ↗

— Peter Hook

#comes #complain #crap #different #every

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#corners #doing #god #growing #growing up

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do. ↗

— Sasha Alexander

#husband #i #i do #understands

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching. ↗

— Tiki Barber

#close #come #even #eye #get