#why

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#always #frustrating #good #i #i always

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble. ↗

— LeBron James

#always #am #been #doing #doing the right thing

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.' ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#body #get #i #jobs #opened

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#analyze #comes #continually #does #energy

Too often, a problem is allowed to fester until it reaches a crisis point... and the American people are left asking the question: what went wrong and why? ↗

— Darrell Issa

#american #american people #asking #crisis #fester

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#ask #came #case #cnn #colleagues

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art. ↗

— LL Cool J

#because #chance #express #get #guy

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#bad #bad back #couple #doing #had

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#get #house #i #kids #kind

There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it? ↗

— Janet Jackson

#decision #down #feel #fit #get