I actually worry that we’re so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.
I always tried to be Mark McGwire and hit homers like he did. I was kind of following his race, too, when he was trying to break the record.
So many people are following fashion now. It’s become fashion-tainment.
‘Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.
I have been following what is now called the ‘Spartan Way’ long before it became popular!
What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.
Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.
I like Strahan a lot. I’ve known him for years. He was a Giant here – in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He’s very funny. He’s got a great sense of humor.
Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely but to continually return to your breath. Taking this time to relax your mind can help sharpen your focus in other aspects of your work and allow you to work for longer periods of time.
I like debate and argument, so I’m usually all right with disagreement, and I’m even all right if the critic doesn’t come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it’s better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
There’s something exciting about weekly strips in that you’re following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it’s a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
The best thing I can do is stay on the road and build a grass-roots following. I’m constantly about building my brand.
I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else’s direction.
There’s not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They’re out there. But I’m one of them who’s just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
Our Party’s policies of respecting the people and loving them and the people’s hearty loyalty of trusting and following the Party as they would do their mothers have become integrated, and thus the blood-sealed ties between them have reached a new, higher stage.
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can’t see any reason to change the formula now.
It’s all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father’s face what it meant that I had done this.
Following well-established national security screening procedures and accurately informing Congress about them is not a joke or a political game. It is essential to guaranteeing that our national secrets are protected and to preventing possible blackmailing of key administration officials.
Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.
Meditation is practical, simple, and very useful. Taking even 30 seconds to rest your attention on your breath instead of following the cycle of your thoughts can bring you back to you in a heart beat.
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins.
I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don’t know what’s going on.
Everything’s always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
When you’re following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way – it’s a really tough time, but it’s also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.
I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.
I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.
I did two films that have a great following. One is ‘Caddyshack,’ one is ‘Tron.’ To tell you the truth, most people don’t know that it’s me in both films.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it’s the best thing in the world.
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
I was quite intrigued by the idea of following the exploits of people who are often in the margins. You see the negotiators, but it’s usually the SWAT team or the tactical team that draw our eye.
It’s true that sometimes we have paparazzi or some kind of photographers following us, but you have to live normal. I mean, if you try to not go to the supermarket or not go to the cinema, you won’t live properly, and you won’t enjoy living. We are trying to be as normal as we can.
I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.
I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of ‘Bond’.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
Following the Road FC chief Jung Moon-hong’s goal to increase the popularity of this sport, I will play my part to popularize MMA as well.
In boxing, some fighters have good chins. You just have to be persistent and continue following the plan and trying to catch them nicely and, obviously, hope to be knocking him out.
I understand people who say, ‘There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.’ Because that’s what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, ‘Right, that’s the end of the band.’ But the band just didn’t seem to die.
The downturn following the collapse of Japan’s so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
The best leaders are following Christ. That’s the best leader you can follow.
I’ve been following what’s happening in Colombia because it’s the country of my childhood.
We were surrounded by influences and interests that came between Stephen and me. The nurse who became his wife was seeking to undermine me, and there were wider influences, too, following the runaway success of ‘A Brief History of Time.’
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
