I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, ‘I’ll write more than everybody else, and that’s how I’ll get better.’
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
I don’t want to try to piggyback off of anybody else.
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’
Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don’t, you’re living someone else’s life.
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One’s own karma, one’s own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a ‘ready-made’ or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn’t have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
When you’re a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you’re a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
Assume nobody else has any idea what they’re doing, either.
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else’s. It’s like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn’t know was there, full of treasure and light.
‘Minecraft’ is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
I just want people to know the reality, and I want people to see the world as it really is – the world is our playground, and we can do anything we want to do on it. Everyone else needs to see it that way – there are no real rules.
Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.
You can’t change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.
I don’t consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I’m not here to tell people what to rap about.
It’s good to have plans and dreams, but don’t be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to experiment with characters, I know a good director means I am in safe hands.
I hate small towns because once you’ve seen the cannon in the park there’s nothing else to do.
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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.
A critical component of progress is engaging with people you don’t agree with – everything else is the status quo.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
Love is not selfish. Love is something else.
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
‘Grace’ is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come – you really just have to stew in your life until it’s time to go. But sometimes, somebody else’s faith in you can do wonders.
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative.’
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
Whether it’s ‘The West Wing’ or anything else, my first thought is always, ‘What’s a good story?’
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
