The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.
If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.
We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.
When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.
I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't.
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
To be alive as a human being is to know, in the same way as it is to have a heart that beats.
Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic.
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.
Standing, I turned to face my father. “It’s the same as the scent on Moore. It’s definitely a foreign cat, but it’s. . . more, somehow. ” Ethan snickered at my unintentional pun, but I ignored him.
The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you. . . . It is the circle of life.
I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.
I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to be in the same field. I've often been asked, "Didn't you want to get married?" And of course I wanted to get married, but you have to fall in love and want to marry a particular person. You don't get married in the abstract. So, although there were people I felt I might have married, it just never happened.