#turning

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again. ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#life #turning-points #life

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. ↗

— Steve Albini

#before #blindfolded #enlightening #know #more

I am turning into the person I knew I would. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#i #i am #into #knew #person

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#case #certainly #point #simpson #turning

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#mexican #point #shuffle #turning #turning point

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #institutions #into #passage #power

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#allowed #back #childhood #fact #frogs

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#could #decision #development #different #important

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. ↗

— Wes Borland

#brand new #discussions #down #funniest #good

And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. ↗

— Richard Branson

#because #different #fun #great #had