I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.
My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to
We must contemplate what the meaning of being "educated" is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.
I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.
Maryland is home to one of the world's most highly skilled, highly educated workforces.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'
For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.