Way Quotes - Page 139

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way

I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone would not solve anything, really. Reasoning is theoretical. Until you feel with your heart, you don't know if a thing is true. I found that book was absolutely authentic. I absolutely knew it was the truth. My whole heart accepted it.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Markets are fundamentally volatile. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get you out of having to experience uncertainty.

You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit each time I didn't get my way, but no one ever let me walk out.