To play duck on a rock most effectively, Naismith soon found that a soft lobbing shot was far more effective than a straight hard throw, a thought which later proved essential for the invention of basketball.
If you think this is hard, spare a thought for Enrico Rastelli, who could juggle 10 balls at a time![1] (He did practice up to 12 hours a day!).
After getting pregnant with Zoe so quickly, I also never anticipated that we would have any trouble conceiving; at the time it seemed like simply making the decision was the hardest part -- a thought that is laughable now.
Oddly enough, no mainly because he would not be chosen by today's Republicans.It is not hard to design a thought experiment, pondering what would happen if the 41st president were 30 years younger and running for office today.
Like when it's hard to articulate a thought, and then somebody says it in exactly the right way and you're like, " THAT'S what I meant!" I'm psyched if even just a few people look at one of my drawings and are like, " That's how it is!" See more of Heather's work on her website, and order a copy of Romantic Story here.
"It's certainly harder to fit a thought in German into 140 characters," says Marcel Weiss of Neunetz.com, a technology-news website, "but it is not impossible".
While making the pinwheel wasn't very hard, a lot of thought and effort went into controlling its stability and speed on the motor's spindle.
In Orwell's 1984, each new edition of the Newspeak dictionary had fewer words than the previous one, making it harder and harder even to think a thought that might challenge Big Brother.
Though we don't know how thoughts are produced by the brain, it is hard to imagine having a thought unaccompanied by some associated mental state.
It was hard not to give a thought to this new circumstance when we saw the space shuttle Challenger vanish with its 7 passengers, not to think of those thousands of other rockets, in their silos on which the fate of nearly 5 billion people rides.
