#stead

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#controls #having #how #instead #learning

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#blessed #exercise #faith #free #instead

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#behind #better #better future #choices #first

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#build #create #how #instead #invest

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#good #i #jazz #later #mainstream

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy. ↗

— Rick Allen

#almost #breathing #coming #enemy #get

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#direct #direct experience #discursive #everything #instead

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. ↗

— John James Audubon

#day #every #every day #fields #going

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #arrived #filled #go #i

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#architecture #doing #focusing #great #great work