“Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinges on one thing; and that is, taking God at His word, believing that He really means exactly what He says, and accepting the very words in which He reveals His goodness and grace, without substituting others or altering the precise modes and tenses which He has seen fit to use.” YearsBelieveMeanUseSeemsMightChristianAcceptingGraceOne ThingFitGoodnessChristian LifePreciseReally MeanGladnessHinges Author:Frances Ridley Havergal
“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.” ThinkingYearsKindStillsHardCharacterTodaySchoolJobsLawInterestingGrowing UpEnvironmentWifeGrowingMonthsFitBenefitsMy WifeQuittingBoredGirlfriendFlawsConformityPanicPregnantMinimumSeniorIn-lawsMy GirlfriendMinimum WageUtahWere PregnantSenior YearCharacter FlawsGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“Portraying this character [Diwata] has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldYearsDifferentCharacterAmericaGirlOpportunityGivenSidesHavensFitMoldPortraying Author:Sarah Steele
“I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.” YearsArtStatesMovingThreeBitsBornLinesGoneFourFitTenMy FamilyMovedFour YearsRealisedFittingNigeriaPittsburghNot Fitting Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.” YearsSelfCountryDreamJobsAmericaLyingIndividualCommunityMemoriesFailingTalentIdentityCitizensFitTrainingConsequenceDignitySelf WorthPrimariesAmerican DreamGood JobNotableGreat AmericanTraining And Experience Author:Jim Clifton
“If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.” IfsYearsImagineFitSucceedArgument Author:Cass Sunstein
“Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.” TryingYearsRunningThreeBitsWeekFitSixDaughterActiveMy DaughterThree YearsHittingTreadmillsCardioThree Year OldsPlaying Around Author:Christina Applegate
“I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.” ThinkingYearsLongHas BeensHardLeftCareersPlansFitHealthyTennisPortfoliosBackupBackup Plan Author:Andy Murray
“The first important [step] one was going to school. There was an advantage as there was a one-room schoolhouse that was within walking distance of my home. I went there being very shy, but I fit in quickly, and I was nurtured by a very dedicated and caring teacher, Magdalen George, who we referred to as Miss George. She was my teacher for a full seven years.” YearsFirstsImportantHomeSchoolRoomsStepsTeacherMissingFitWalkingAdvantageDistanceSevenCaringShyDedicatedSeven Years Author:Paul Smith
“This is many, many years ago. It was shortly after "Starman" I think. I don't know how close I was to getting the part. I met with [director] Penny Marshall and that's one that I knew would be a hit. It just felt hit-ish. But it's like you go to a store and you see a jacket and you go "I love that jacket" and you try it on and it's too big or too small for you and it's the only one they have. For some reason that part just didn't fit me.” ThinkingKnowsTryingYearsReasonBigsWould BeFeltKnow HowLike YouFitMetsDirectorsYears AgoStoresJacketsPennies Author:Jeff Bridges
“Now we know everything about golf equipment. A player doesn't have to know diddly about golf clubs, because we know what a golf club can do and how it can fit to you. I hate to harp on my era because people don't like that, but 30 years back was so different. I didn't have maxed-out clubs. The clubs now are amazing.” PeopleKnowsYearsDifferentHateCan DoPlayerFitI HateGolfClubsErasEquipmentHarpsGolf Clubs Author:Nick Faldo
“There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when I was a kid? I decided to create a book for girls like me. The Littlest Bigfoot is about bullying and body image and girls who don't fit in. It's like training wheels for my adult books - like Sex and the City, but with 12-year-olds.” ThinkingYearsBookBodyKidsGirlSexCitiesFitTrainingAdultsDecidedLike MeWheelsBullyingBody ImageBigfootSex And The CityTraining Wheels Author:Jennifer Weiner
“I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsPhilosophyHelpingHappensCommunityPerfectTeachingPeriodsFitTrainingLaysEverydayBuddhistStrictEveryday LifeDharmaMonastic LifeBuddhist Philosophy Author:Tenzin Palmo
“There's nothing new. I think that's the weird thing for me. Over the last couple of months, the keep-fit shows, and then at the end of it you get to lose weight and one of you is going to win a million dollars - that's not real. In many ways, even 10 years ago that wouldn't have worked.” ThinkingWayYearsRealEndsShowsLastsWinningLosesMillionsMonthsCoupleFitYears AgoWeightDollarsMillion DollarsLose WeightWeird ThingsNothing New Author:Gordon Ramsay
“I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until this moment, and trying to decide what songs to include on the Mini-Album was super difficult, because there were so many different sound/mood roads I could have gone down. But, after going through everything, these tracks seemed to fit together and communicate a similar sentiment and mood the best.” TryingYearsDifferentMomentsTogetherSongDifficultSoundHalfGoneFitTrackAlbumsCommunicateFinishedMoodSentimentsUnfinishedHalf A Year Author:St. Lucia
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“The title [of the album 'The Big Revival']alone fit what I was feeling. It defined what I was going through. That year off was a time to revive, to reset, to reclaim, to revitalize and to re-focus. It was a revival of how I made music, how I presented it and my connection with the fans.” YearsMadeFeelingsBigsFocusFansFitConnectionsAlbumsDefinedTitlesRevivalReviveReset Author:Kenny Chesney
“All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.” YearsKindMeanChildrenMadeProblemTodayJobsMotherFunStuffClearSeeingTaughtFitPleaseLosingOkayEightFatsMade ItMannersRudeElevatorsNot OkayPlease And Thank You Author:Temple Grandin
“I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?” YearsChildrenSexParentCoupleFitSkillsRaisesCommittedIncomeCuriousUnmarried Author:Ellen Barkin
“As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.” WayYearsHeartStoriesMy OwnFitMy TimeTemperamentHead And Heart Author:Walter Dean Myers
“If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.” IfsYearsChildrenTwoYoungMotherLiteratureFitLifetimeFortyYoung ChildrenBeing SadStatistician Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.” KnowsYearsChildrenSometimesProblemWould BeLosesBreakFailingFitEasierWeightOur ChildrenBest ThingsThings To DoResolutionMore TimeNew YearLose WeightNew Year's ResolutionsGet Fit Author:Peter Singer
“I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.” YearsDealsFitShotsImpactMissionsMy TimePosterityChoreographersBest Shot Author:Twyla Tharp
“The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.” YearsI CanImportantUseFitRoundsAthleteGreat ThingsStayingPool Author:Vera Wang
“Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.” YearsWellsMadeGrowthBuildingHugeFitEasierToolsContactMade ItMake SenseSiteImportsViral Author:Mark Zuckerberg