#thing

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#determination #discouragements #earth #face #father

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way. ↗

— John Elway

#been #being #better #difficult #done

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#after #because #consider #done #everything

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side. ↗

— John Elway

#because #best #business #could #football

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. ↗

— David Bohm

#commonly #existence #interdependent #meaning #means

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. ↗

— David Bohm

#another #doing #feature #know #major

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

#case #cases #doctor #fact #far

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate. ↗

— Eminem

#enough #go #had #haven #i

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough. ↗

— Manute Bol

#jail #kind #like #make #me