“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.” ThinkingWayWritingStillsReadingBehindsKnownPrinciplesSupportMovementPositionJudgmentToughMethodDefinitionsAppearanceDiscussionAnalysisPenetrateObjectionsFacadeCovertThink For YourselfClose Reading Author:John Taylor Gatto
“If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.” IfsWould BeTodayTeamPositionArmsBasketballToughVoteTwistedRocketsHoustonMvp Author:Mark Jackson
“I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you're in tough circumstances, there's always somebody who's in a worse position than you.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsGivingPositionCircumstancesToughPraise Author:Queen Latifah
“When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.” PositionToughClockPhenomenonTough Times Author:Dan Harmon
“When a lot of athletes get done playing, they end up in some really tough positions. They have a hard time transitioning because their identity is wrapped up in who they are as a player and what they do rather than who they can be in Christ. We desire to help people understand the invitation that God has given each one of us as Christ followers to be a part of this global redemptive story. If you can't give your life to something with meaning and purpose of that magnitude then there's nothing there.” PeopleIfsGivingEndsHardDoneHelpingStoriesDesirePurposeGivenChristPlayerIdentityPositionToughAthleteHard TimesFollowersInvitationsMagnitude Author:Aaron Kampman
“When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldSaidEnoughYoungCausesEnjoyPositionWindColdToughStandingBlowWeatherHatsExposedSailImpatient Author:E. B. White
“The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.” StillsUseGovernmentLastsGenerationsPositionToughCrisisInstitutionsThis DayFarmersAgricultureTough TimesMillionaireFranklinGreat Depression1930s Author:Thomas Sowell
“We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety. I'm sure my positions won't make me the hero of the NRA.” BelieveHelpingLawI BelieveSupportPositionHeroProtectGunToughSafetyChipsMassachusettsNraGun Law Author:Mitt Romney
“If I played a tough kid on the street I couldn't go out there and get into fifth position. I had to dance like a tough kid on the street.” IfsKidsStreetsPositionToughFifth Author:Gene Kelly
“Although, my guess is that what Donald Trump will do tonight is to try to thread that needle by kind of softening his policy position or maybe just the questions about what you do with those 11 million, while getting tough on criminal migrants.” TryingKindMillionsPolicyPositionTrumpToughCriminalsTonightThreadNeedlesMigrants Author:Michelle Goldberg
“How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me to stop her"? It seems like they're giving themselves a really tough position to occupy here, be they governors, senators, congressional members of the House of Representatives. They want to stop Hillary but not enough to keep her out of the White House. "So she'll get in there, but you need to elect us to put the brakes on her."” PeopleWantNeedsGivingEnoughHandsSeemsHouseWhitePositionObjectsMembersToughClintonWhite HouseGovernorsRepresentativesSenatorsBrakeHouse Of Representatives Author:Rush Limbaugh