Locked – Page 2

Much of our national

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one’s loss is precisely the other’s gain. Eric Liu

I got locked into

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy. Eric Idle

I was living in different accommodation and it was never in a place where I could set up my drums and play, so my drums would end up back in their cases and then in the garage. In the end I got used to the drums being locked up, I went a good eight years … Read more

If you can’t fail

If you can’t fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you’ve got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of … Read more

People are locked up

People are locked up in all sorts of ways. Emma Donoghue

I\\’m going to fight

I’m going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can’t just sit back; it’s not in my nature. I can’t sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won’t. Elton John

The state of mind

The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don’t like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they’re psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then … Read more

Not only do we

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness. Ellen Langer

\\’When you were little,

‘When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?’\” Then he paused and asked, \”Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?\” Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of … Read more

Writers write because they

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories. … Read more