Way Quotes - Page 140

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

The Work always leaves you with less of a story. Who would you be without your story? You never know until you inquire. There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you. Turn it around; undo it. You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.

I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.