Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.
It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.
It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.
Fashion, to me, is being individualistic.
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
The prosperity gospel, in its various forms, has always been with us and always will. But that reality is no less problematic for being inescapable.
I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.
At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn't need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.
I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work.
