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But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
Carre Otis
Life
Beautiful
Karma
Circumstances
Both
Throws
Remind
Come
Understand
Inevitably
Balls
Expect
Expect The Unexpected
Unexpected
Current
Unfolding
Curve
Us
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Love
You
Overcome
Hurdles
Whatever
Energy
Else
Above
Thrown
Put
Got
Subject
Balls
Curve
Place
Them
Your
Deeply
Need
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.
David Bowie
Myself
Change
Looking
Looking Back
Progressing
Back
More
Throw
Feel
Imposing
Balls
Lot
Than
Confident
Curve
Fun
Why
Need
The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
Anthony Foxx
Reality
About
Behind
Curve
Planning
Transportation
The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
Carl Hiaasen
Life
Time
Real Life
Every
Think
Every Time
Dreamed
Stay
Something
Scene
Write
Real
Up
Curve
Happens
Hard
Novels
Ever
Thing
Florida
Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.
Carmen Miranda
Me
Brazil
Every
Tell
Look
Curve
Body
You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.
Carrie Underwood
Life
You
Rest
My Life
Predict
Assumptions
Way
About
Throw
Never
Like
Know
Make
Balls
Any
Going
Anything
Curve
There's times when I'll be out in the middle of the track, standing in the curve, and I'll just laugh. 'What the heck am I doing right now? I'm sliding down the hill at crazy speeds and standing in freezing cold weather.'
Elana Meyers
Crazy
Weather
Down
Cold
Cold Weather
Speeds
Sliding
Laugh
Out
Hill
Freezing
Track
Am
Doing
Times
Just
Middle
Curve
Heck
Standing
Now
Right
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
Felix Klein
Mathematics
Confused
Become
Enough
Everyone
Possible
Through
Exceptions
Studied
He
Countless
Until
Knows
Curve
Number
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Nate Silver
You
Learning
Thought
Speed
Kind
Develop
Learning Curve
Up
Artificially
Curve
Processes
Your
Games
Right
Playing
Playing Games
Right Kind
These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.
Richard Phillips
Evolve
Evolving
Must
Stay
Pirates
Stop
Happening
Curve
Them
Incidents
My favourite places on earth are the wild waterways where the forest opens its arms and a silver curve of river folds the traveller into its embrace.
Rory MacLean
Wild
Earth
Embrace
Favourite
Silver
River
Opens
Arms
Forest
Where
Curve
Places
Traveller
If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.
Stanley Druckenmiller
Time
Great
You
Learning
Pay
Every
Think
Every Time
About
Give
Mentor
Higher
Take
Between
Until
Learning Curve
Leaving
Close
Curve
Choice
Your
Even
Peaks
Early
Career
I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.
Tyler Perry
Love
You
Woman
Wonderful
Shoes
See
Silhouette
About
Give
Something
Feet
Up
Leg
Curve
Really
Pair
Butt
Right
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we're on, we're only at the beginning of it.
Alastair Reynolds
Beginning
Revolution
Whatever
Enormous
Draw
Only
Shaped
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Years
Sitting
Curve
Century
Here
Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.
Anand Mahindra
Wait
Become
Believe
Ourselves
Trick
Stay
Curve
Whether
Should
Manufacturing
Services
Disrupted
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
Andrea Jung
Learning
Old
First
Beginning
Months
Something
More
Firm
Like
Economy
Became
Learning Curve
Makes
Occurs
Traditional
Branded
Hit
Stocks
Six
Curve
CEO
Your
Fast
Past 'Drag Race' alum that I've spoken to, their biggest advice to me was, 'Expect the unexpected,' and, 'There's no way that you can prepare for this,' so I thought I was at least ahead of the curve knowing that I wasn't prepared.
Aquaria
Me
You
Thought
Advice
Past
Way
Spoken
Knowing
Least
Expect
Expect The Unexpected
Unexpected
Biggest
Curve
Race
Prepare
Prepared
Drag
The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.
Arthur Laffer
Changes
Rates
Economic
Arithmetic
Idea
Revenues
Effect
Effects
Tax
Curve
Tax Rates
Tax Revenues
Illustrate
Basic
Two
The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.'
Arthur Laffer
Entitled
Name
Jude
Got
How
Revenues
Article
Begins
Curve
Story
Interest
Public
Taxes
Public Interest
I used the so-called Laffer Curve all the time in my classes and with anyone else who would listen to me to illustrate the trade-off between tax rates and tax revenues.
Arthur Laffer
Time
Me
Else
Would
Classes
Rates
Between
Trade-Off
Revenues
Listen
Tax
So-Called
Anyone
Anyone Else
Curve
Tax Rates
Tax Revenues
Used
Who
Illustrate
2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Baldwin Spencer
Sectors
Promise
Direct
Investments
Economy
Opens
Private
Substantial
Transform
Curve
Upward
Swiftly
Number
Set
I never want to hear about going to hell if I did something wrong. But I do use Jesus as my curve point, and I think of his teachings when it comes to how I want to treat people.
Beth Hart
People
Treat
Hell
Think
About
Something
Point
Never
Wrong
How
Hear
His
Did
Going
Want
Curve
Use
Teachings
Jesus
I'd never done a sitcom until the 'Michael J. Fox Show.' I'd never even guest starred in one until then. So it was definitely a learning curve, which is what I wanted. I wanted to do something new, to challenge myself.
Betsy Brandt
Myself
Learning
Challenge
Guest
Definitely
Something
Something New
Never
New
Until
Learning Curve
Michael
Sitcom
Done
Wanted
Curve
Which
Then
Show
Even
Starred
Fox
I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve.
Bill Dickey
You
High
Inside
Name
Sure
Were
Curve
Your
Sucker
Recall
I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
Bruce Feirstein
You
Learning
Think
Television
Write
Like
Learning Curve
Understand
Same
Precisely
Just
Anything
Curve
Them
Games
Using
Film
Muscles
Need
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