There was a saying around MGM: "Norma Shearer got the productions, Greta Garbo supplied the art, and Joan Crawford made the money to pay for both".
A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected. . . . when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.
Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.
An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.