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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
Caprice Bourret
Great
You
Wait
Will
Months
Say
Okay
Restaurant
Table
About
Rather
Trivial
Instead
Hottest
Town
Know
Call
Very
Five
Ask
Deep
They Say
Two
Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
Carl Honore
Life
Work
Health
Struggle
Relax
Mistakes
Enjoy
Living
Every
Speed
Relationships
Our
Minute
More
More And More
Through
Instead
Obsession
Make
Get
Diet
Decent
Race
Means
Moment
Even
Suffer
Actually
Night
Sleep
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
Carla Bley
Teacher
Music
You
Learning
Walk
Old
Father
Free
Piano
Instead
Learn
Because
Got
Were
Years
Lessons
Play
Started
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
Carlisle Floyd
Work
Music
Me
People
Amazing
Will
First
Lose
Young
Other
Say
Sight
Composers
Write
Generations
Instead
Come
Like
First Things
Audience
How
Being
Want
Gaining
Who
Credentials
Fast
Things
Rejected
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
Carol Moseley Braun
People
Giving
Rich
Pockets
Instead
Putting
Tax
Tax Cut
Bush
Cut
Working
Working People
Maybe you don't know how to do something at work. Instead of asking the boss or seeking someone as a mentor, you might not want to show them your ignorance. So, you're depriving yourself of this learning and mentorship. All of these ways are ways that a fixed mindset will hold you back.
Carol S. Dweck
Work
You
Ignorance
Learning
Yourself
Will
Back
Mindset
Ways
Seeking
Someone
Something
Boss
Mentor
Instead
Know
How
Fixed
Maybe
Want
Hold
Them
Might
Depriving
Asking
Your
Show
A female professional athlete has to have the whole package, as opposed to a guy who can just be good at sport. You have to have a job or go to uni or do three sports instead of one, you have to be a standout.
Caroline Buchanan
Good
You
Sports
Job
Three
Just Be
Athlete
Guy
Instead
Sport
Female
Opposed
Go
Just
Package
Who
Professional
Professional Athlete
Whole
It can be very challenging to be what you can't see. Think about it in the physical world. You walk into a room, and no one looks like you. Can you relate to them? Do you feel welcome? Let's stop talking about how men dominate the technology industry and instead focus on the women who are killing it.
Caroline Ghosn
You
Technology
Welcome
Women
World
Walk
Focus
Men
Think
Relate
Physical
See
About
Physical World
No-One
Instead
Feel
Like
Looks
Industry
Talking
How
Very
Dominate
Stop
Room
Them
Who
Challenging
Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
Caroline Knapp
Life
Family
Me
Husband
Kids
Find
Something
Alluring
Wrong
Instead
Exhausting
Fantasy
Why
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.
Caroline Shaw
You
Writing
Differences
Add
Other
Extreme
Strings
Kind
About
Having
Colors
Instead
Like
Sounds
Curious
Brass
Orchestra
Just
Different
Experimenting
Different Colors
Next
Each
Suddenly
Right
I would want to bring up my children. Therefore, I have no dream to make my mark. Instead, I enjoy economic freedom my hard work has given me. It means that I can give my children the best start in life.
Caroline Wozniacki
Life
Work
Hard Work
Best
Freedom
Me
Enjoy
Mark
Dream
Would
Give
Given
Economic
Economic Freedom
Instead
Make
Up
Children
Want
Means
Hard
Therefore
Start
Bring
The Huygens images were everything our images from orbit were not. Instead of hazy, sinuous features that we could only guess were streams and drainage channels, here was incontrovertible evidence that at some point in Titan's history - and perhaps even now - there were flowing liquid hydrocarbons on the surface.
Carolyn Porco
History
Drainage
Channels
Guess
Our
Everything
Evidence
Some
Only
Features
Point
Could
Hazy
Instead
Perhaps
Surface
Were
Liquid
Orbit
Even
Even Now
Now
Streams
Images
Here
Incontrovertible
Flowing
In the high-stakes and elitist world of music collecting and fandom, we operate from an ab ovo perspective. The seed, the first incarnation - that is the most pure, the most lauded. Minutemen trumps Firehose, Throwing Muses beats Belly, Joy Division over New Order, Operation Ivy ruled Rancid, Undertones instead of That Petrol Emotion.
Carrie Brownstein
Music
Joy
World
Perspective
Pure
First
Ruled
Collecting
Seed
Emotion
Throwing
Beats
Division
Instead
Over
New
Joy Division
Most
Operate
Operation
New Order
Ivy
Order
Incarnation
Petrol
Belly
Elitist
Muses
One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead of seeing the sunlight that asteroids reflect, NEOWISE sees the heat that they emit. This is a vital capability, since some asteroids are as dark as coal and can be difficult or impossible to spot with other telescopes.
Carrie Nugent
Dark
Impossible
Sky
Valuable
Reflect
Difficult
Other
Sunlight
Vital
Seeing
Some
Sees
Instead
Since
Spot
Heat
Infrared
Capability
Means
Coal
Reasons
Thermal
Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.
Carson Kressley
Life
Work
Home
Party
Think
Would
Eat
Some
Rather
Glamorous
Instead
Come
Friends
Times
Going
Microwave
Just
Pop
Your
Popcorn
Sofa
Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.
Casey Kasem
Believe
Instead
Up
Wanted
Radio
Professional
Professional Baseball
Professional Baseball Player
Baseball
Growing
Growing Up
Baseball Player
Actually
Player
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
Casey Wilson
Politics
Woman
Comedy
Path
Daunting
Instead
Most
Go
Going
Decided
Which
Second
Career
Career Path
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Catharine MacKinnon
Defense
Pretty
Postmodernism
Gives
Instead
Male
Effect
Wherever
Which
Us
Multicultural
Universal
Violence
Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Work
You
Creative
Writing
Try
Creative Process
Submit
Control
Think
Market
Those
See
More
Write
Shape
Instead
True
Feel
Over
Know
Fit
Target
Than
May
Happens
Process
Your
Who
Even
Letting
Humbly
I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.
Cathy Guisewite
Strange
Men
Live
Astounded
Married
Constantly
About
Instead
Occasionally
Afar
Male
Brain
Wondering
Which
Means
Actually
I loved numbers from a very young age. I feel like my mom led me there because, instead of giving me Game Boy and PlayStations and a TV, she gave me educational software on our family computer for Math and stuff.
Catriona Gray
Mom
Family
Me
Game
Age
Giving
Young
Gave
Software
Our
TV
Computer
Instead
Feel
Stuff
Like
She
Because
Boy
Educational
Math
Led
Very
Young Age
Loved
Numbers
I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.
Chantal Kreviazuk
You
People
Other
About
Something
General
Having
Records
Through
Instead
Like
Sing
Make
Sake
Affecting
Subject
Up
Trying
Getting
Just
Experienced
Should
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Now
Expressive
The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.
Charles Bronson
Me
Man
Garden
Say
Critics
See
Never
Poisonous
Instead
Protecting
His
Snakes
Role
Committing
Just
Again
They Say
Violence
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
Charles C. Mann
Stream
Doctors
Relay
Visit
Data
Hospital
Computers
Instead
Come
Remotely
Alter
Making
Continuous
Patients
Treatment
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles Kuralt
Saying
You
Kids
Fireman
Instead
Policeman
Answer
Said
Always
Up
Reporter
Going
Asked
Grow
Grow Up
Needed
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.
Charlie Hunnam
Home
History
Experience
School
College
Community
High
High School
Direct
Exams
Through
Write
Studied
Instead
Idea
Got
Go
Did
Expelled
Going
Wanted
Decided
Plan
Then
Community College
Theory
Film
University
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