Way Quotes - Page 379

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

Breakaway goals are fun.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I could be 80 tomorrow and I'd still be okay. It's all the way you think about things.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

But I am a dreamer So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

I'm a massive scaredy cat. I'm scared of being in a fast car, I'm scared of being on a rollercoaster, I would never go skiing, I would never do anything that had the possibility of endangering my life in any way. I should get some therapy, really.

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine that represents the theme or the concept that you've agreed on, and writing partners are great for that because you can sit there until you get it.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.