Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don’t need a net because you can catch yourself.
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
You always have those moments of standing outside your own life and thinking, ‘This is kind of bizarre and quite wonderful.’ And I think those moments always catch you off guard.
Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.
I’d go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I’d stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
In front of 40,000 people, you don’t really want to drop a catch or misfield. It’s part and parcel of the game.
In my own personal life, it’s been pretty hard navigating love, and so I’ve found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.
I always have a cigar when I catch a fish.
Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
I don’t think you can catch lightning in a bottle twice.
You can’t just keep bottling the same thing over and over again and think the audience isn’t going to catch on.
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
You’re never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he’s done in this state, trying to pit the city of Chicago against the rest of Illinois – I’ll never agree with anything Bruce Rauner says.
The way that we imitate each others’ riffs is something that other bands don’t do as much. If we’re jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It’s the being there that’s important.
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it’s what makes us we are. It’s what delineates the borders of our societies.
You’ve got to catch the ball.
I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly.
I may catch some flack for this, but the Jersey style I feel is just very different from New York. When I hear a Jersey MC spit, I can just hear New Jersey in them. To where as NY, that style has been broadcasted so nationally that it’s just a natural sound in music.
Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can’t catch.
If I have on a bright red lip, you’ll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It’s one or the other for me – pick one feature for the day and really focus on that.
If I’m practicing making up what the characters will do, it’s never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don’t catch colds, you don’t get cancer, you don’t get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?
We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.
A lot of kids get disappointed. They expect me to be, like, ‘Bwaah.’ ‘If I spend a minute with them, they end up saying, ‘Wow, you’re a nice, normal guy.’ They hate it when they catch me out of my makeup.
I don’t work out or watch what I eat – but I need to start so it doesn’t catch up to me.
At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody’s head. I don’t remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It’s not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.
I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.
I only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.
I read tons of books, listen to music non-stop, watch as many movies as possible, catch a play when I can, art shows, concerts, bar talks – I just try to engage in art, which to me is everywhere, as often as I can because narrative lives in it all.
The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.
Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone – as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.
If you ever catch a great boss, it’s just such a rare thing, and it’s amazing.
If you tell Canadians that you want to interview them for a critical piece on the Canadian healthcare system, they’ll put on their best trophy-wife smile for the camera and list its many accolades. Catch them on a day with their guard down in need of actual care, however, and the truth comes out.
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
Really, you don’t want to think about yards after the catch when the ball is in the air. You want to think about catching the ball. And then let the rest play its way out.
Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I’m swept up in amorphous dust.
Don’t let the ball hit you. Catch it or get out of the way. And if you get out of the way, that’s when you have to stop playing.
Your job as a receiver is to get open and catch the ball and block in the run game.
How do you hold on to the idea that you are good and kind and deserving of love when the whole world thinks you’re evil? It’s really disorienting to see this character with your face and your name and your details catch internet wildfire. It really bothered me.
It’s absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book ‘An American Dream’ is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don’t catch him in a defensive position, he’ll admit it. I’d really like to help that man.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.
The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you’ll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.
Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it’s a different thing altogether. It’s the great fear of any singer’s life.
If you catch me coming out of a film, when I’m emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
When I was a kid, one thing I counted on was rushing home from church to catch the start of the race. There’s something really awesome about that routine.
I’m just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I’d have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let’s forget about it. I’m a ballplayer.
This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
To be honest, I don’t listen to much music! I’ve been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I’ll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You’re not moving so fast that you miss the world’s details passing by – in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.
I went to business school so what they teach you in business school was that success is about positioning yourself to get lucky. It’s not just about how hard you work. It is also about a little bit of luck. To position yourself to catch the luck when it comes.
