#too

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#boldly #deeply #expresses #feels #fervor

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#billions #change #emergence #evolution #further

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #buy #father #had #interesting

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#could #happen #i #mental #much

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#blank #blank page #days #down #five

What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#chance #day #different #every #every day

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#control #controlled #danger #feel #feeling

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? ↗

— Bill Veeck

#before #every #game #income #income taxes

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#against #always #been #done #i

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #book #dream #far #far away