#turning

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#day #entered #few #first #gymnastics

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#chi #difficult #ever #good #habit

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#challenges #developing #energy #energy production #foreign

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#cause #demonstration #governments #into #israel

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on! ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#high-speed #leading #like #listening #nothing

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#coalition #created #fdr #finish #gain

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#biggest #even #freshman #freshman year #geek

It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long. ↗

— Keith Urban

#case #i #i think #long #looking

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#believe #body #combat #demands #deploying

Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” (p.136) ↗

— Mark David Gerson

#filing #floors #fridges #returning-calls #toilets