Way Quotes
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The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
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Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.
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Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
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You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.
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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.
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I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.
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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
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Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.
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Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.
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There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.
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I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.
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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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Sometimes leaving is the only way to be there for someone.
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I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
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Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
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I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.
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America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear.
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You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn’t going.
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But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are or not, we do it naturally. So the way we construct our narrative is different from the way we constructed it a year ago. The difference is maybe very small or it may be huge.
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.
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At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me. It's important to go seek help when you need it, and to give help when other people need it. And that is really more important than coming in with a gigantic brain into the astronaut program.
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I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.
