Way Quotes - Page 329

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

The way we feel is the direct result of what we think.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going to be like. And then we go away into a room, and we talk about what worked and what didn't. And then we take all of those findings and we do that whole process again.

There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

I laughed all the way through Love Story.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.