A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Live news teaches you some incredibly strong lessons: that every day is a new day, and it’s never too late to fix something.
Sometimes something’s got to happen before something is going to happen.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
When it’s time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
It’s always a good feeling to be recognized for something.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
I just know that I’mma do something in life. I’mma do something productive.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there’s something good about feeling both.
All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
If they’re not talking about you, you’re not doing something; you’re not doing anything. So if they’re talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation.
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something’s time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn’t serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can’t be taught.
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.
My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.
How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former – Being – be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter – time – be addressed as a being.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?
Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.
I think there’s something really powerful about being yourself.
Nintendo’s philosophy is never to go the easy path; it’s always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
I don’t want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.
When you get something for nothing, you just haven’t been billed for it yet.
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.
I struggle with reading a bit. I’m slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I’m not a big book reader at all. And something like ‘Game of Thrones’ seems very daunting to me!
Music is really something that makes people whole.
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, ‘I’m your leader!’ If it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you.
‘Quick Change’ was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill Murray’s character would say something, and Geena Davis and Randy Quaid would say something, and then it would just say, ‘The cabbie speaks.’ How do you audition for that?
