Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.
The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful. There's no such thing as a PowerBar tree.
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.
There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.
If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.
It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.
I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.
If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.
My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.
The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
My attitude is that when we put a youngster in harm's way, somebody who wears our nation's uniform in harm's way, he or she deserves the absolute best.
Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.
You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.
But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.
Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.
I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.
I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.
In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.
For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.