Education is the art of making man ethical.
I’m more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But ‘Steve Jobs’ and ‘The Social Network’ have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they’re making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
What matters is ‘Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?’ That’s our real goal, and that’s what we’re going to stay focused on.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That’s the key.
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
There have been times when I’ve felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making ‘The Most Hated Family in America’ about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people’s quality of life.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
I’ve never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.
The sense of jubilee for music and what we’re making is always genuine.
There’s no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it – if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be – how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you’re making everything harder for yourself.
It’s all about making sure kids can have access to educational opportunities… you may not need a necessarily traditional college environment, but access to trades and employment development.
Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?
Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it’s doing a couple things: it’s empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it’s also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we’re a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.
Negotiation is empathy. It’s almost trite to say that if you can’t put yourself in the seat of the other person you’re speaking with, you’re not going to do well. It’s not about being a bully, not about making offers people can’t refuse.
No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world – whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don’t want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it’s all about. It’s about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.
Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!
Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I’m never going to stop that.
When you’re making music, it’s meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I’m writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There’s something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I’ll let them do it. I’m just here to fit in and see where it goes.
I’m hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you ‘boot-strap’ yourself into a large income.
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don’t try to bring other pieces of movies with me.
I’m not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.
We need to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs instead of making it easier for insurance companies to charge more for less inclusive coverage.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
I did this movie called ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ and I was an extra, and it was a movie that Oprah was producing. She had walked by, and I was making all the other extras laugh, and she said, ‘You’re a very funny young lady.’ I was like, ‘Eeeee!’
When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
Particularly when you’re making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives – you know?
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
When you are trying to express things with metaphors and much more subtlety, that’s when you are doing yourself a disservice by making a video.
I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.
