Way Quotes - Page 252

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the rejection is universal, then it is the self-destructive proposition that there are no true propositions. If the rejection is limited to the dogmas, then it is just a roundabout way of saying that all the dogmas are false.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

The easiest way to save money is to waste less energy.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don't do it!

The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be a Benedict Arnold is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.

Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.

Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.