#turning

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#being #communion #connection #deeper #fishing

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. ↗

— John Updike

#american life #consists #driving #hell #home

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#frail #light #media #off #people

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#amount #been #direction #investments #most

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#ducks #i #into #stories #swans

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#am #basically #could #expertise #first

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web. ↗

— Tom Brady

#around #busy #e-mails #house #kids

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#capacity #caused #depth #develop #empathize

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#age #been #change #first #first time