#stick

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#absorb #around #generally #going #heads

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#confused #decided #double #even #everybody

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#besides #i #i am #just #long

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#stick #tiger #use #waking

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

All men live enveloped in the whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life. ↗

— Herman Melville

#death

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly - I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#arm #drum #dynamic #effort #feel

Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#instrument #know #knows #nobody #out

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#because #get #happen #luck #out

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#i #i can #just #long #many