The only difference between a flexible person and one who is not is that the flexible person has to go farther to get the same stretch.
Sometimes comparing can be a good thing: it can inspire us to work harder and reach farther. But for the most part, excessive measuring yourself up against others – especially when it becomes a way to put yourself down – is a colossal waste of time. It’s a dead end. It won’t make you do anything except feel horrible.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
I don’t know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
The guys that have that drive, that work ethic, make it farther and farther.
For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
My job is just to be more consistent and if I can keep being more repeatable, have my dispersion be a little less as I’m hitting it farther, there’s a lot of strokes to be gained there.
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking – so bright. That will always take you farther.
Musically, I’m always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there’s not really one genre I’m trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I’m planning on going farther.
The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.
I think that Putin’s strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations and undermining trust in democracies. They may have gotten farther in the States than anywhere else.
To play music, you have to understand it. I didn’t understand ‘Topographic Oceans.’ That’s why I hardly played on it. It frustrated me no end – and playing the whole thing on tour, I got farther and farther away from it.
The biggest technical challenge to sending astronauts on farther and longer missions is biomedical: How do we keep them healthy?
I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.
Growing up in the ’70s, it was only a few years before that when men started to grow their hair long. And in the ’70s, people were pushing the envelope a little farther, with men having even more style and piercing both their ears and wearing makeup.
You set your goals to a point where they’re attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
I was a very bad student. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, ‘Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.’
We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.
On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something’s farther away, it’ll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
On stage, you’re not limited at all because you’re free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
I’m heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It’s a massive difference. It means I don’t get as tired sometimes and it means that I’m hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.
I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that’s what I tried to do.
In 1974, we began franchising. We didn’t have any big thought process except that, ‘OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.’
I now add, farther, that the apostle’s argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God’s grace reaches farther.
You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph’s farther to the northward.
Now I’m this far up the ladder and I’ve got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
This is a quarterback-driven league. We all know that, and we all know, to succeed and to go a little bit farther and farther and farther, you need one of those guys.
The trouble with anyone when they’re unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don’t know what to do about is that they can’t see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn’t there anymore, you have to do something about it.
The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
When people can’t feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don’t have to look farther than the United States to see that.
It’s been a journey, the NBA. It’s taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.
Through my work as a nutritionist and trainer to celebrity clients, I’ve had amazing opportunities to travel the world. In my experience, I made what seemed to be a remarkable discovery: the farther I travel from the U.S., the easier it is to find foods that are both nourishing and slimming.
John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp – and we should aim high.
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