Way Quotes - Page 83

Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it's working.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste

Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.

There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are.

By the way, Wonder Woman is Amazonian, and historically accurate Amazonian women actually had only one breast. So, if I'd really go 'by the book' ... it'd be problematic.

Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Things work out the way they're meant to

There is but one way to learn to do a thing and that is to do it.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.