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If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity


Josh Lanyon

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CAMERON STRACHER Josh Shipp's minutes tonight were critical. He was spectacular.
BEN HOWLAND I think it helped, ... It was hot out there and we needed everyone to get it done.
GREG ELLIS I think one of Barry's strengths was his ability to make sure we had input from everyone. It was one...
SUZANNE ANARDE If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It ...
KATE REARDON And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER There have been lots of players in history that have had a combination of skill and scoring ability ...
KEITH ACTON The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition....
TAHIR SHAH The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
JOSH LANYON It was the best show I’d ever seen; it was so tight and choreographed that it seemed to be from an...
DAVID BYRNE Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown afte...
JOSH LANYON He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself a...
DEAN KOONTZ Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND He won't feel a fraction of what I do for you. You won't change his life. And you will always wonder...
JOSH LANYON It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talk...
JOSH LANYON Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner. The one overriding goal we h...
BUD SELIG I think everyone was surprised at the lack of crowds. There was no one in the neighborhood.
CRAIG MONTGOMERY Humans seem more interested in discovering life on Mars than we are on this planet. Yet understandin...
BRIAN FISHER Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only on...
BEN SWEETLAND Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was...
DAVID LEVITHAN I was scared. I think everyone on the team got scared just for a second. Josh hit some huge free thr...
SCOTT UBBENGA Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social w...
IAN MCEWAN The large seat is needed so the operator can control it. Put an extra person on there, and it interf...
CHUCK SCHWAB It was cool to play an empowered woman, one of the most important persons on the planet.
CARLA GUGINO Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted no...
ORLA BRADY I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death...
KARLIE KLOSS I think it was the right thing to do. We needed to get those people out of there and get them anothe...
LUC ROBITAILLE Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects...
KARL JASPERS I don?t think anybody ever had a bad word to say about Ben. When you needed a friend, he was there. ...
HAL HONIG The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE If we are connected to everyone else by six degrees and we can influence them up to three degrees, t...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at...
MICHAEL PENA I turned back to the television. After a while what I was staring at registered. “Hey, this is ...
JOSH LANYON It was a great team effort. Everyone played the game they needed to play.
AMANDA TEWKSBURY It was the No. 1-selling e-book on the planet. With about 12 copies.
DAN BROWN Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if t...
CECELIA AHERN We're all just pretty disappointed. It was a long year, a tough year, a disappointing year. We're a ...
KYLE KORVER I was happy with the way I played. I think everyone was happy about the way everyone played. Overall...
ANDREW LADD I think it can be a good group. I came here when it was (Bryan) Hickman, TP (Terry Pierce) and (Josh...
BRANDON ARCHER The main thing was the lack of water. There was also a problem with oxygen, not critical but the bod...
ALEXANDER UIBIN What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?
CANDACE BUSHNELL Local ownership there was critical, and it was crucial to Carl Lindner.
BUD SELIG There's room for everyone, and everyone is wanted and needed. Whoopi showed me that. When I firs...
ANNA DIOP I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
BROWNIE MCGHEE There was central heating at this time, but the fireplace was needed symbolically, as if to say that...
MARTIN CHAPMAN It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, to...
STAN DALE It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possess...
CRISS JAMI I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew ...
DONALD DUNN Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mi...
GAYLE FORMAN There was nothing going on that needed the cops to handle.
JASON KASSOY Josh was there for us, and we were very proud of him. He's one of our stars as well as one of the co...
MARK MORBERG Each month we try to focus on a different life skill and February's was proper etiquette.
MAKENZIE LUTZ There is always a concern about being rusty with such a long layoff. I was pleased with our effort a...
JEFF SANTARSIERO We watched one Russian team working out on the ice and it was an amazing thing to watch. There was o...
MIKE ORSER One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thou...
JIM RASH The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-gi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Everyone lives by different life code... my life code was the odd one.
DEYTH BANGER The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the l...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informe...
MARY ANDREWS I was pretty much stunned by the numbers like everyone else. I could not believe that with just a sm...
BERNIE BURKHOLDER I knew it was going to be close. But the kids did what they needed to do. It was everyone. Every kid...
DAN EPSTEIN For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude w...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for y...
IAN PHILPOT It's something we've needed. It's nice when you have someone to take that pressure off when a team's...
MIKE GREEN The one thing I really lucked out on is that all through my teenage years, when my sister was a life...
JENNIFER GARNER No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
BOB RILEY I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night....
JERRY SPINELLI We've been working on relays a lot in practice ? and we've made some mistakes ? but it's nice to kno...
ABBIE BATES If (the bleeding) was on the left side of the brain, it will undoubtedly involve his speech and comp...
DR. KEITH SILLER I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON To instill the values for the culture was and is the responsibility of the leadership, and staff ali...
SUE MALLORY I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' w...
BRYAN FULLER Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you look at our own planet Earth, for half of its history, life was microscopic. It's the first s...
CHRIS MCKAY Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become ...
LESLIE ODOM, JR. He was there when you needed him. He was always the last one to leave (the station) to make sure eve...
BILL QUIGLEY If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.
SHANNON L. ALDER The thing I like the best about Josh is he's one of our hardest workers in practice. I've always fel...
GARY MILLS I don't think it's clear yet, because of the on-going investigation, (that) there was an issue with ...
CARRIE HARMON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE When we got them together for the first time on the field, ... and had Woodley throwing on one side ...
DON SHULA There was a lot of team camaraderie and companionship. I really liked how everyone was on the sideli...
LESLY HAINSWORTH It was a hard day to judge any skill position with the wind and the rain.
GREG SCHIANO I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at pr...
DAN QUINN The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the plane...
BILL BRYSON I was going to be there regardless. I'm going to be working on the ceremonies, so I'll make that my ...
RENEE SONNENBERG I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed...
JOE CALZAGHE It was good to have Kelley's out there because it gave everybody a peace of mind that if something s...
BOBBY HADLEY I think it was critical. I think it was significant. I think that it came at an important juncture i...
FREMAN HENDRIX I just think she's a lot more comfortable and a lot more confident. The skill was always there, but ...
DWIGHT GUNNARE All three games have been great games. I think we finished real strong. After we cut it to one in th...
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JOSH BILLINGS It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
JOSH BILLINGS A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I ...
JOSH BILLINGS The less we know the more we suspect.
JOSH BILLINGS My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in...
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
JOSH BILLINGS Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed ...
JOSH BILLINGS The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.
JOSH BILLINGS If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy...
JOSH BILLINGS Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it ge...
JOSH BILLINGS Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.
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