An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
. . . finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.
It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.
After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.
You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.
Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear if catching fish is actually the point.
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
Haste is good only in catching fleas.
Rock and roll is catching on all over. . . France. . . England. . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.