The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people ‘feel’ heard. They ‘feel’ that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.
To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Personally, I don’t like the term ‘success.’ It’s too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It’s usually someone else’s definition, not yours.
My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Cricket is such a sport that you get to learn something from someone every day.
You know what it’s like having five kids? Imagine you’re drowning. And someone hands you a baby.
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.
The worst possible thing in the world is to have someone who doesn’t believe in you.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of ‘Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends’ as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn’t stop reading it.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.
I don’t mind being criticised, because I am not that easy to knock down, and no-one can destroy me. But I am bothered by the stupid people who call me dirty, brainless, and an idiot. You don’t say words like these to someone who you know nothing about.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.
People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
No one really knows what I’m really like, and you won’t unless you spend a day with me, or if you’re my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it’s just the media talking and you can’t really get to know someone that way, obviously.
Yes, it’s true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother’s home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn’t do it.
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone’s letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
I’ve always been someone who’s believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don’t believe in relativism, a ‘your truth, my truth’ kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love – and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.
When someone is impatient and says, ‘I haven’t got all day,’ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
After every war someone has to tidy up.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
I just don’t sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says ‘I wish I slept more.’
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
I wasn’t a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who’d never done any Latin dance. I’d taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I’d never done a dance audition.
Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
If you love someone – like, truly love someone – I don’t think that ever goes away. But what does change is your perspective on the relationship and the dynamic.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn’t marry someone for the ‘operational efficiencies’ they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
In the TV business, you’ve got to write fast, and someone will tell you, ‘Can you rewrite this episode before… 6 P.M.?’ So that’s when you rewrite it. You can’t wait for the muse to show up.
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I’m not that nice a guy.
I had very bad acne growing up. I had braces for six years, from the fifth to the 11th grade. I didn’t look in the mirror and feel like someone who should be on TV.
I don’t get upset if people think I’m crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that’s the way I think about the world. They don’t know any better.
As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don’t take that lightly; it’s a big responsibility.
If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.
There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.
