What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others.
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
Networking is an essential part of building wealth.
Making Superman was so hard. We were a year over schedule. We were there a year and a half, the first time. And in a year and a half, you go through everything you go through in a life. So you can't really go, "Oh, it must have been fun to work with Chris Reeve. " In a year and a half, you bonded like a family, so you know someone far too well to think something as simplistic as "Oh, it's just fun. " You know their secrets. I mean, it was everything. It was truly - it's a cliché to say we were family, but we really were.
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.
We don't teach our children how to dream.
Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!