“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.” ThinkingInspirationalBigsLossResultsHistoryCrazyMissingPositiveBasketballShotsConsequenceNegativeNbaFear Of FailureBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball MotivationNba PlayerGreat BasketballBig ShotsBasketball Is My LifeBasketball Is LifeBasketball And LifeBasketball LifeNegative ConsequencesToughness In SportsSports Mental Toughness Book:I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence
“[In] the 21st century, the mainstream can satisfy your every whim. I guess the idea of walking around with groups of people dressed the same and saying, "I'm only into ska" or "I'm only into whatever" - is kind of restrictive in the 21st century. I don't know if it's a bad thing that these movements have run their course. I think what I miss about it is the collective experience.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindIdeasRunningCoursesGroupsCenturyMissingMovementWalkingCollectivesBad ThingsMainstream21st CenturyWhim Author:Don Letts
“When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.” PeopleThinkingAgeKnownMissingAntony Author:William S. Burroughs
“I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."” IfsThinkingWholeBigsTodayMissing Author:Barack Obama
“Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have - and we ask ourselves whether poetry and politics even belong together, because they're often so poorly married that we think of them as oil and water.” ThinkingTogetherAsksWaterMissingMarriedBreathsOilOil And Water Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“Germany will continue to play a central - perhaps even a more important - role in the European Union. I think that we will all miss the pragmatic approach of the British, however, particularly in those long nights of negotiation.” ThinkingLongImportantPlayNightRolesMissingApproachUnionsBritishGermanyNegotiationEuropean UnionPragmaticLong Nights Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I had to learn how to change my thinking because I can really get caught up in not liking my body. It can turn into obsession and it can be really bad. I think that when that rules your life then you miss the joys of life.” ThinkingI CanBodyJoyTurnsMissingCaughtObsessionCaught UpBecause I CanJoy Of Life Author:Carmen Electra
“Suarez did fit in the style of the team quickly. I think his arrival was practically perfect. And us 3 fit in a fantastic way. We used to understand each other even without having so much of playing time together. I think we were missing the icing on the cake, and it was [ Luis Alberto] Suarez.” ThinkingWayTogetherUsedPerfectTeamMissingStyleFitFantasticCakeArrivalsTime TogetherIcingIcing On The CakeSuarez Author:Neymar
“If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.” IfsThinkingWorldWayShouldDifferentStoriesMovingGraceMissingPerspectiveSpotsRootedKeep MovingDifferent Perspective Author:Chinua Achebe
“Well, one of the things we felt was missing from the greater conversation is that transgender people have been living and working in America for years...People may think it's a "new" thing; it's not...So we wanted to show not just the political side, which is what you see with Caitlyn Jenner. And not the other side with Laverne Cox, who's great.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensShowsWantedAmericaPoliticalFeltSidesGreaterMissingConversationNew ThingsTransgender Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.” IfsThinkingEndsTodayWonderWonderfulMissing Author:Dick Van Dyke
“My definition of prosperity would be quite different than what most people probably imagine or think, because I think that a wholeness word that means nothing missing, nothing broken. It's not finances or materialism.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentWould BeImagineMissingBrokenDefinitionsProsperityFinanceMaterialismWholeness Author:Paula White
“I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedMissingGrewGrew UpEastWeatherCaliforniaCoastEast CoastVermont Author:Martha Ronk
“I think Daniel Murphy definitely is premeditated what he'd like to do. He's very good about not missing his pitch when he sees it. I know the ball has to look like at least a softball right now, at least, maybe more to the beach ball variety. He's seeing everything that well. He's a good hitter that is seeing the ball really well right now, and you have to make good pitches to get him out.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksSeeingMissingRight NowBallsVery GoodVarietyBeachSoftballMurphy Author:Joe Maddon
“There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".” ThinkingHas BeensSongRoomsViolenceMissingPeriodsSceneSummerTownsSingersBarsVideoExcellentBordersLatterBobDylanEthosLatter DaysSummer Days Author:Jay Michaelson
“I do miss things about Britain. I think there was a misconception, there definitely was, that I left because of bad press, and being pilloried. I left Britain because I fell in love with someone who lived in Switzerland - that was the main thing.” ThinkingLeftMissingPressesBritainMisconceptionSwitzerlandBad Press Author:Phil Collins
“I think Jeff [Van Gundy] is really, really good and fun to listen to. And I would be disappointed if - I know he offered to not be a part of the broadcast - he wasn't on the air. We'd all miss something. I think the [brother situation] adds the human element.” IfsThinkingKnowsHumansWould BeFunSituationAirMissingBrotherElementsAddDisappointedVans Author:Joe Buck
“I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.” ThinkingBelieveBookI BelieveEasyMissingQuietMy FriendsMasquerade Author:Jesse Ball
“There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.” ThinkingIdeasOpportunityMissingHollywoodPopsUrbanIntegrating Author:Russell Simmons
“I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German translations, and I did everything to make the best English translation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie I could. And then, there I went. "Oh! I think she's thinking this, but I think she should say it!" And so on. It's wonderful to do that.” ThinkingKnowsShouldBookWonderfulMissingAdvantageTranslationsAugustSwedishMiss Julie Author:Liv Ullmann
“I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.” PeopleThinkingSometimesBlackMissingComplicatedBlack People Author:Viola Davis
“People see me on stage and sometimes they think, "Who's this hotdog thinking that he's the best." They miss the point that what I'm doing now comes from a whole different world of doing it for no one with nobody caring.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentSometimesWholeStageMissingCaringDifferent Worlds Author:Girl Talk
“I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up.” PeopleThinkingStillsBigsGovernmentUniverseCompanyTechnologyOur LivesMissingHavensPolicyMastersEngagedValleysSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Edward Snowden
“I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live in worlds that you don't have to be thinking about that all the time. I don't see myself writing Upton Sinclair books. My books are to entertain, although to me, entertainment is to make you feel sadness or to get in touch with your own pain - or fear, or to remember somebody who has gone missing from your life. That's my calling.” ThinkingWorldFeelsWritingArtBookAblePainRememberJusticeGoneSadnessMissingCallingArt IsHungerEntertainmentEnjoyed Author:John Darnielle
“A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingLongDifferentRunningSubjectsMissingTypeCodeDesignerDisabilityArchitectLong RunsInteriorsCubesGuidelinesPeople With DisabilitiesInterior Designer Author:Itzhak Perlman
“Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is interesting. And Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is funny. Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is different. Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is drama. Trump, no matter what anybody thinks of him, is unpredictable. All of that means, you can't miss it.” ThinkingMeanDifferentMatterInterestingMissingTrumpDramaNo Matter WhatUnpredictable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think Aaron [Sorkin] did a remarkable job of plucking Andy [Hertzfeld] out of [Steve] Jobs' story, to perhaps reflect back on Steve a sense of maybe some things that were missing in Steve's life. Andy, just by nature, is one of these straight shooters.” ThinkingStoriesJobsMissingRemarkableShooter Author:Michael Stuhlbarg
“I think the erotic is very spiritual, and I never see that spiritual dimension when you look at collections of erotica. That's always missing for me.” ThinkingLooksSpiritualMissingDimensionsCollectionsEroticSpiritual Dimensions Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried to get the overall in. I think that's more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.” IfsThinkingMayHas BeensTwoImportantFilmMovingThreeCan DoMissingToughFasterYou Can Do ItCrude Author:Oliver Stone
“I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.” ThinkingKnowsWantWellsLittlesParentPerfectSecretMissingDamnNot Perfect Author:Judy Blume
“I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were in school, when most people - at least in my little socioeconomic corner of the world - live not with their families or sexual partners, but with same-sex friends. I really miss that from college. I never really thought at the time about how things would never be that way again.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLittlesLongSchoolSexEasyMissingCollegeCornersPartnersSubstitutesSchedulesCorners Of The World Author:Elif Batuman
“I was not interested at all in Formula One when I left; I was very busy with my airline. But slowly I started missing the adrenaline rush and the driving of such fantastic cars at the limit. In reality this urge never disappears when you're a top driver, because I think we're a different breed of people, we need to take chances, we need to push ourselves to the limit all the time, that sort of thing. It stays with you, although you can kill it by losing motivation or other things in your life, but it never leaves you forever.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDifferentRealityMotivationLeftChanceForeverCarMissingLimitsLosingBusyDisappearDrivingFantasticUrgesDriversFormulasNot InterestedTake A ChanceAirlineAdrenalineFormula OneAdrenaline Rush Author:Niki Lauda
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.” PeopleThinkingFactsTakenMissingScream Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.” IfsThinkingWayWellsStoriesAbleFeltPerfectHeardMissingWake UpSellingMaskLegendsWakingShoppingOrgansEpisodesUrbanJustifiedMenusKidneysSaturatedBathtubsIconographyMissing ItUrban Legends Author:Bryan Fuller
“I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.” PeopleThinkingWayWantI CanSometimesCan DoFictionMissingBehaviorDocumentariesObservingUnspoken Author:Robert Greene
“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. So I think we can miss the point if we get too concerned about the gender of God.” IfsThinkingMotherFatherHouseLostMissingConcernedGenderTendernessCoinsHousewifeParables Author:Max Lucado
“I think Trump has made it really hard for people to read, period. He's made it hard for me anyway. Part of his evil is the way it constantly distracts us, constantly upends our horizon. To leave your computer for three hours now is to miss a year's worth of drama. This is programmatic and common to other autocratic regimes of our times.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsMadeHardThreeEvilHoursCommonMissingTrumpPeriodsDramaComputerMade ItOur TimeHorizonRegimes Author:Jonathan Raymond
“I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsMindJobsWhiteMissingFolksEducate Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.” PeopleThinkingCountryAnimalMissingBuildingGardenTraditionNeighborHonestlyCraving Author:Novella Carpenter
“I think we have to be careful saying what we will never do, because what we do is we limit what God has for us by saying what we will never ever do. A lot of times, we miss the right companion, job, or opportunity because we say we won't ever.” ThinkingOpportunityMissingCarefulCompanionBe Careful Author:Avery Sunshine
“I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.” PeopleThinkingEmotionMissingJournalism Author:Lydia Polgreen
“I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.” ThinkingOpinionMissing Author:Will Kimbrough
“When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied time where we get to be truly free, so feeling bad about missing the weekend isn't just, "Damn, I didn't make it to the mall!" It's a profound loss.” ThinkingFeelingsLossMissingProfoundAbsenceWeekendFeeling Bad Author:Katrina Onstad
“I think the arrogance of people who think or actually are in the establishment, think they're part of it or actually are, they cannot help themselves, apparently. They take this guy, Trump, who is not a politician, in the career sense, and they plug him into their system and analyze what he does and what he says the way they analyze professional politicians and what they say and do, and they miss it. Which is not news. The news is they're not even getting close to understanding it yet. Despite the never-ending efforts on the part of people like me to help them figure it out.” PeopleThinkingHelpingGuyUnderstandingEffortMissingPoliticianArrogance Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What is missing from your life? Know that whatever you are missing, you are - most likely - not giving. Bring to your life what you want from it. If you don't think The Uni-verse is helping you, try trusting yourself and taking a risk. Listen to your intuition. Do what scares you... and the see the miracle that awaits.” ThinkingGivingTryingHelpingRiskMissingMiracleIntuitionScare Author:Mastin Kipp
“Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentMovingValuesBreakTechnologyNovelProgressMissingEnlightenmentConsequenceUltimateMoving ForwardRejectionIntroducing Author:Sheila Jasanoff
“I would like to think that the level of aggressiveness in law enforcement will remain the same, when you're talking about things like keeping the markets fair and government honest. I don't foresee any departure from that, unless I'm missing something big.” ThinkingHonestMissingLaw EnforcementAggressiveness Author:Preet Bharara
“Culturally, now, we're really tight around death, and as a result I think people miss out on a lot of the beautiful aspects of the end of life process that can be very helpful for the grieving process, that can be a really beautiful part of transition of life that we don't get to experience because it's not in the conversation.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulMissingGrievingHelpfulEnd Of LifeReally Beautiful Author:Chrysta Bell
“My question is, if you think this stuff is fake news, why watch it? There's no value in it. Unless you're entertained by it and you have boundaries and the stuff's not gonna affect your mood, fine and dandy. But if it's gonna frustrate you, make you mad, you're not missing anything turning it off.” ThinkingValuesMissingMadMoodBoundariesFake Author:Rush Limbaugh