I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success. '
Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.
Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.
Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.
Reegan scowled at Cath. "Are you Zack, or are you Cody?".
For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to England and embracing the English culture and becoming part of so-called swinging London and the era of euphoria and celebration that the '60s represented is very critical. It was a moment when, for the first time, the business of internationalism was being effectively represented-in music, art, cinema, design. Before that, everything was directed toward the old industry, the old school, the old format, and there was no room for varieties to evolve.