Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
If you’re able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you’re able to tackle anything around the world because you’re able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I’m concerned.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless – and absolutely essential.
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
I’m not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant – that’s why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it’s why sunglasses are glamorous – but also not so far above us that we can’t identify with the person.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they’d work.
There’s something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.
Don’t sell yourself short because without that you can’t go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can’t do anything else with that.
I grew up in a super small town in upstate New York; my nearest neighbour was really far away.
Even though it feels like you are so far away from the big leagues, my love for the game kept me motivated to get through the hard times in the minors.
If it’s far away, it’s news, but if it’s close at home, it’s sociology.
Fair and softly goes far.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It’s just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what’s behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus’ as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an’ I could not understand ‘dem, no how.
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
People are dying in vain because this country isn’t holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
I feel I can rush the passer well. I feel like I can play the run even better than what I did starting off to when I got in my senior year as far as making plays in the backfield and just being able to break down film a lot better.
I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they looked like a bowl cut, and I broke my nose twice.
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
I don’t know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he’s in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Whenever you are faced with someone who has made far more errors in judgment and far more mistakes than you, you have a tendency to get on your high horse.
Eventually, there will come a day where I’m not making games at Bethesda. Hopefully that’s a long time away. But I want to make sure that who we are, what the worlds are, what the company is, that’s sustainable far beyond me.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
I’m 21 years old, and it’s kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I’m in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I’m here, there’s no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you’re merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do – to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
