“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?” ThinkingYearsChildrenWantedAmericaMovingGrowsSidesAnimalBoysGrowing UpNiceYears AgoTwentiesEastProfessionJungleColumbusWild AnimalEast Side Author:Abraham Polonsky
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it's plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I'm going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we're going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we'll all sell more as a result".” ThinkingFirstsIdeasMovingResultsPowerfulMoralNiceCenturyHundredTwentiesRaisesSellsCompetitionShipsCoachingAbundanceZeroCollaborationTidesGood SenseScarcityMentoring Author:Daniel Burrus
“By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.” WorldStillsJobsPayMistakeNiceStupidTwentiesFar AwayYour StupidStupid Mistake Author:Katie Aselton
“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.” IfsWayLittlesStillsImportantHelpingRealizingSilenceMorningNiceMeditationMinutesTwentiesLittle ThingsWhat's Important Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude, which is pretty nice. You get to a point where you don't care so much what people think of you and you care more about yourself.” PeopleThinkingWayCareAttitudeNiceWorstBalanceHealthyEthicsTwentiesDon't CareLifestyleAbout YourselfWork EthicHealthy LifestyleThink Of YouCarefree Author:Norman Reedus
“When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.” ThinkingBeautifulHouseFeltNiceTwentiesShoesConnectedEveningPairsDeathbedPair Of Shoes Author:Tom Ford
“I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.” YearsSongNiceTwentiesExcitedMusic BusinessOld Song Author:Five for Fighting
“In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.” IfsThinkingPersonsDoeHelpingWould BeTurnsFatherTermFiveNiceDoorsTwentiesThirtySkepticalDiggingHaircutsGood FatherNice PersonBad Haircuts Author:Rashida Jones
“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.” RealFatherFiveNiceMinesTenTwentiesGuitarTwenty FiveFourteenCarolinaNorth CarolinaDurham Author:James Taylor
“Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.” ThinkingWarHappensEarthPainJoyWaterFourNiceRocksVictoryDramaAbuseTwentiesSevenRoundsUglySicknessSandPolishGrindErodeGravel Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backwards, right into Nico's sword. "Nice one," Paul said. "When did you learn to fire a shotgun?" I demanded. My mom blew the hair out of her face. "About two seconds ago. Percy, we'll be fine. Go!” SaidTwoHandsFacesFireNiceFeetHairFineMomTwentiesMy MomMonstersGiantsSecondsBackwardsBlastUmbrellaPumpsShotguns Author:Rick Riordan
“Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.” ThinkingAgeSocialVirtueNiceRiskWallEasierSafeFunctionTwentiesOneselfSettlingUpsetPrisonerOrganismsHierarchyRest Of Your LifeMaking ChangesDisapproval Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.” WritingJobsNiceTaughtTwentiesOddAshamedRealisingIntrovertWriting LifeNineteenOutgoingExtroverts Author:Ursula K. Le Guin