“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayFeelsTryingDoeI CanBookCharacterHomeHappensMy OwnGroupsFiguresAdventureBrotherLike YouMomMadFollowingMy MomMy BrotherPlusOld ManMy Own LifeMain CharactersNerdy Author:Matt de la Pena
“With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.” MovingMy OwnGroups Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“Communication leads to community that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking. Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place. Community is where I can share my innermost thoughts, bring out the depths of my own feelings, and know they will be understood.” KnowsI CanFeelingsUnderstandingCommunityMy OwnGroupsShareCommunicationConversationUnderstoodDepthDefinedIntimacyMutualLacking Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.” ProblemMy OwnGroupsBasketballNbaEasternConferences Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFirstsDiesIndividualBornMy OwnBehindsExistenceMillionsGroupsMembersBreathsReally TrueLive SimplyMy Own World Book:Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen
“Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.” PlayMy OwnGroupsTeamBonesResistanceContemptWetCementMarrowSupple Author:Florence King
“My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.” EndsInterestMy OwnViewsIssuesGroupsComfortableAbortionInterest Groups Author:Stephen Harper
“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensLastsIndividualMy OwnSimpleAttentionCompanyGroupsIndustryApproachInvestingCriteriaUndervalued Author:Benjamin Graham
“Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.” WholeMy OwnRoomsPartyGroupsLuckyOfficeSeriesStartingMinistersOfficialsPrimeFormalPrime MinisterCabinets Author:Tony Abbott
“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingStoriesUseActionTogetherSocialJusticeMy OwnClearGroupsMovementSittingSocial JusticeInstanceFinding YourselfActivistDiscoveringMaking ChangesMy Own LifeTextbooksLife StorySmall Groups Author:Gloria Steinem
“In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.” WayFeelsLittlesCareMy OwnGroupsPushingWho CaresEssays Author:David Shields
“I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentTogetherOpportunityGivenEasyMy OwnGroupsStyleInternetMassCrossesGenreNicheDifferent Styles Author:Mac Miller
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?” IfsShouldHas BeensDifferentMy OwnPleasureWrittenGroupsReaderShould HaveShould Have Been Author:James Arthur
“In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.” WritingHas BeensDifferentMy OwnFictionGroupsWovenFiction WritingStrands Author:Alan Lightman