Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.
If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.
I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.