#instead

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. ↗

— Alan Watts

#drown #faith #float #grab #hold

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#also #america #become #being #consumerism

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#does #even #exist #instead #off

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#bill #class #congress #deductions #deficit

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#because #being #character #did #doing

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#become #cars #citizens #competing #destroy

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#comes #concentration #copyright #danger #feudalism

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be. ↗

— Judith Light

#instead #into #meant #meant to be #ourselves

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#doing #everybody #feel #give #hard