In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.
Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.
Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping
The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.
Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.
I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.
Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.
To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.
And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.