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Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality.
There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you.
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.
Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.
All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.
I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.
We are not hiding things from the American people, but China everyday is conducting business in a way that hides things from their people.
Cast off limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness. Stand in the midst of the great void. This is the secret of the Way of a Warrior.
We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.
I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.
The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.
Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.
Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.
I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.
We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.