When all else fails, take a vacation.
It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too.
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.
Ask for 100% of what you want 100% of the time.
The eyes are the landing strip to the heart.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.
I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.