Way Quotes - Page 255

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.

In a lot of ways, certain things, it feels like they're never going to go away. The best thing to do is continue to ask questions, look that fear in the eye.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

Decisions are the doorway to change.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

When you are doing work of value, people will support you in a variety of ways, not just money.

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I wanted to have was drums and another guitar pretty much playing what I wrote on guitar, and I was just going to sing.

What's recommended is that if you have a good experience, don't get too excited. And if you have a bad experience, don't mistake it for a serious deviation or a sidetrack that you have to find your way back from. If you have a bad experience, just continue practicing as you were. In other words, whatever happens, just keep looking at your mind.

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his whole self into it, quite unawares, presenting as if in allegory the basic themes and problems of his life.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.