“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.” PeopleWorldYearsLittlesKidsBitsDifficultTermStageSucceedLittle BitLowsRateStartingLike Me Author:Daley Thompson
“Sometimes you start a little further back from the starting line. And you're going to have to work a little bit harder, and push it faster to get to the finish. I'm willing to put in the work, to compensate for other things, to get ahead, to get to where I want to be.” WantLittlesSometimesBitsLinesWillingLittle BitHarderStartingFasterMmaGet Ahead Author:Nick Newell
“To me, Kane's always been a good guy, a good teammate. I think now he's got a girlfriend. You can tell, he's 24, turning 25, he's not 18 or 19 anymore. It's kind of fun seeing him and Toews get a little bit older, have girlfriends. They're starting to stay in on a Friday night, watch a movie instead.” ThinkingKindLittlesNightGuyFunBitsWatchesSeeingLittle BitStartingGirlfriendFridayTeammateNhlGood GuyFriday NightGood TeamBlackhawks Author:Duncan Keith
“I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.” WayLittlesLongHandsBigsBitsLittle BitStartingTinyHolesShirtsBootsJeansT ShirtMotorcycleKnitwear Author:Clemence Poesy
“We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.” ThinkingTryingLittlesBigsCultureBitsGoodnessLittle BitStartingAbout YourselfStarting Point Author:David Brooks
“I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.” ThinkingLittlesHomeFilmBitsViewsParticularIndustryNeededLittle BitHappeningsStartingStrengthening Author:Saoirse Ronan
“You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.” FeelsLittlesShowsAmericaCertainBitsLittle BitRacismStartingEasePocketsRight TimeCosby Show Author:Adam McKay
“It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.” WorldWayLooksLittlesCertainBitsDarkPerspectiveLittle BitNegativeStartingChanging The WorldLoserRedefiningOverbearing Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.” ThinkingLittlesRememberBitsStreetsLittle BitHotStartingOnlineReverse Author:Joe Budden
“In terms of talking about what our politics has become, it now seems as if Barack Obama is starting to stand outside of it a little bit and critique what our politics has become. And I think he sees himself as a useful critic that way saying that it's not only become dishonest, he said, but now we have a selective sorting of the facts and our politics has become self-defeating.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesSaidSelfFactsSeemsBitsTermTalkingLittle BitCriticsStartingBarackStanding OutCritiqueSelectiveSorting Author:Gloria Borger