#tent

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#first #group #husband #involved #man

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. ↗

— Tom Landry

#constant #management #secret #winning

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#i #rather #tent #than

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#attempts #attention #even #get #later

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#clearness #consistent #defend #easiest #greater

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#attention #failing #food #four #just

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#boxer #content #fight #fine #get

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. ↗

— William James

#becomes #fails #fulfill #organism #potentialities