#thing

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#against #approached #black #box #easy

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have. ↗

— Kirk Gibson

#luxuries #now #schools #slides #things

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#go #learn #nothing #start #writing

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#hindsight #life #look #lot #makes

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#old #same #since #thing #want

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want. ↗

— Tyrese Gibson

#environment #figure #got #head #live

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#being #believe #former #latter #means

You have to win something for people to think about you. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#people #something #think #win #you

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. ↗

— Dorothy Gilman

#arrive #arrives #best #feel #finds

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ↗