William James Quotes
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
-
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
-
My parents have been with me every step of the way.
-
As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
-
It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
-
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
-
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
-
Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
-
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
-
I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
-
What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
-
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
-
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
-
I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
-
I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.
-
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
-
I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond memories of my interactions with Catholic clergy.
-
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.
-
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
