Way Quotes - Page 312

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens.

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

With the attention I got on my wealth, I thought I would have become a source of resentment, but it is just the other way around - it just generates that much more ambition in many people.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Perhaps Singapore could learn from us a more relaxed way of life.

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely with you. And the audience becomes a collective entity as well. They come in from separate places and socio-economic backgrounds, and places across the world and days that they've had, and then they come together and they become one collective thing, and experience something in a collective way.

The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we in fact covet in our way, is the alterable moment-the fragile but crystalline opportunity for one's know-how, ability, or just gut instinct to change the course of another's life for the better.

Wear a belt! It's an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.