Way Quotes - Page 562

If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

If you're going to hold on tight to your life, better make sure it's exactly the way you want it

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

Tell me a way you think this can work." "We'll find a way," I tell her. "That's not an answer. It's a hope." "Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

That's the best way to audition for anything: When your back-up plan is your dream, you know?

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

It's one thing to assent to propositions like 'The way of things is ineffable', and quite another to internalise what it is being gestured at by such propositions, to get a sense or feel for mystery. For me, at least, it is in and through ways of engaging with nature that this sense is intimated. These ways include being in the garden.

My 'heroes' are those - like Chuang Tzu and Heidegger - who recognize that the world of experience is a human world, but recognize too that there is a 'way' or a 'source' to which our lives are answerable.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.