Way Quotes
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By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
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For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
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There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way.
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A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.
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I always gave it the best shot I had, whether it went my way or not that night.
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Dancing, for me, is like a second language. It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way.
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One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.
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To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.
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Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.
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The Virginia class is an extremely successful program, and we'd like to keep it that way, and we're confident in our performance. But the Ohio replacement is a significantly larger ship.
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The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.
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The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
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My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way.
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They have not any difficulties on the way up because they fly, but they have many when they reach the summit.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
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Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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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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Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.
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Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.
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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
