Way Quotes - Page 269

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

The cheapest and most efficient way of slowing down global warming is to protect and restore the forests, particularly the tropical forests

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

The best way to stop a bad habit is never to begin it.

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.