Way Quotes - Page 219

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way. The film work that came up was really a surprise.

The easy way out usually leads back in.

Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution.

If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day.

Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

I really feel that actors should really know who they are as characters; they should really study their lines; they should be prepared; but once they come to set, for me the most exciting way to shoot a scene is to really find it, really kind of grind your way through it, until you feel like you have something that you can put together.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.