At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.
Natural disasters are terrifying – that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!
Every man deserves a castle; doesn’t matter how big your castle is.
There’s a lot of things we go through and we don’t even know why… At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that’s kind of how I take that.
Put your own twist to it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.
You can’t change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country’s wishes blest!
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
So I said to the gym instructor: ‘Can you teach me to do the splits?’ He said: ‘How flexible are you?’ I said: I can’t make Tuesdays.’
If you can’t laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.
If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
A lot of people don’t see, when we lose and go through tough times, how upset and disappointed we are.
So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It’s still their ball game. It’s their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director’s impulses.
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That’s how it is.
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that’s basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you’re really stuck with them in some sense. You can’t return them to the wild.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren’t coming after me!
I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won’t be classified as just a man.
