What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think WinWin Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road. . . Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication. . . the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.
I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.