Way Quotes - Page 700

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

I act because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.

Violence is not the way.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

Spinning out of my neuromarketing work where, based on scanning the brains of 2,000 respondents' brains using fMRI, we learned that there's a huge correlation between religion and branding - and thus the way that brands intend to generate customer evangelism are to be constructed.

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

I have found a beautiful summary of the way I work with organisations, and the values I seek to amplify.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.

One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with the poetics of failure, and the way in which all the things that you claim or that you try for are already based on the limits of language.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.