Tony Dorsett

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

American Athlete

Black Elk

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Leader

Abhishek Banerjee

Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it's very important to know that politics.

Indian Politician

Ted Demme

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

American Director

Rony Abovitz

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

American Businessman

Rajkumar Hirani

My natural bend is to get attracted towards things that have been an influence in my life.

Indian Director

Gary Hamel

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

American Author

Joe Buck

I think people bend the truth all the time, unfortunately.

American Celebrity

Mike Colter

It's always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

American Actor

Use 'bend' to describe intentional movements during physical activities.

Physical action

'Bend' is often used metaphorically to express flexibility in thinking or behavior.

Common metaphor

'Bend' indicates the physical alteration of an object's shape.

Physical change

Sometimes bending something can permanently change its form.

Irreversible action

A 'bend' in a road or river can be gradual and not necessarily sharp.

Not always sharp

Use 'bend' as a noun to describe roads or paths. This can help set a scene.

Descriptive tool

'Bend' can imply a subtle or significant change in direction, not just physical paths.

Direction change

'Bend' could suggest an unplanned or unexpected directional change.

Unplanned deviation

'Bend' can mean submissively changing one's stance under pressure.

Figurative use

To 'bend' may indicate flexibility under stress without breaking.

Showing resilience

'Bend' as a noun is specific to nautical contexts and involves technical know-how.

Technical term

In sailing, a 'bend' refers to a secure knot, critical for safety at sea.

Nautical importance

 So you need something to protect you from essentially exploding or at least having your skin all stretched out, and the blood boiling and getting the bends, things like that. The way space suits are designed now, they're mostly pressurised spacecraft. Essentially, they're almost like a mini spaceship. Things like, how do you maintain water?

Robots Hunting for Life...

 But the reason it's important for knuckle cracking is that, like other fluids in your body, it contains lots of dissolved gas molecules. Knuckle-crackers know that to get that satisfying pop, you stretch the joint farther than it normally goes by bending your fingers backwards, for example.

Why do your knuckles...

 This is where things get even more interesting. Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move. But not all types of movement are allowed. You can't bend your knee backwards, or bend your forearm in the middle, for example.

Why the octopus brain is...

 but the guitarist pitch bending might be of critical expressive importance. The speech to song illusion captures how simply repeating a sentence a number of times shifts listeners attention to the pitch and temporal aspects of the sound, so that the repeated spoken language

Why we love repetition...

 think of it as a catalogue of humanity as a composite of infinite interactions between cultural adaptations and genetic projections now what do I really mean by that our biological DNA bends it curves at mutated mutates not only through

Why I think inside the...

 It depends on how dexterous you feel. If you can bend each finger just halfway, that gives us three different states - down, half bent, and raised. Now, we can count using a base-three positional system,

How high can you count...

 do that she just very gently bends over kind of almost inverts her body vertically and picks the ray up and then slowly just raises her head and now she's you know four or five feet in front of me with

The Secret Culture of...

 And that is when a new chapter in my life began. Four months later I was back up on a snowboard, although things didn't go quite as My knees and my ankles wouldn't bend

Amy Purdy: Living beyond...

 you show me a humble horse mate and i'll show you a unicorn they don't exist i mean we even bend down so you can get on our backs you think

A Scottish Fly Moves In...

 fletchers bend the arrow, carpenters bend a log of wood, wise people fashion themselves." And that's the idea I want to leave you with,