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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.
It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.
I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure.
Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.
To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.
Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.