Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me – whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.
I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
If my uniform doesn’t get dirty, I haven’t done anything in the baseball game.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don’t do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
The idea of ‘Spoonful’ was that it doesn’t take a large quantity of anything to be good. If you have a little money when you need it, you’re right there in the right spot, that’ll buy you a whole lot.
Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
I’m really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn’t be where I am.
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
When you have children, there is no room for lies, no room for anything but the truth. Anything other than that is a bad example, I believe.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That’s just always been my mentality. I’m not really fazed by anything. It’s in the past. There’s nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
I’ll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
When you’re a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you’re smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and anyone could be star. Rents were cheap, creativity was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years away. That was the era the Club Kids came into.
I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn’t come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, ‘I’m going to make it through all of this.’
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.
If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
I don’t feel my best right now, but at the same time, I’m not trying to find any excuses or anything.
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
I’d do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.
To love what you do and feel that it matters how could anything be more fun?
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Determination Over Negativity is a belief that anything is possible no matter who you are or where you come from.
