When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say. " "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise. " "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another. " In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.
Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.
Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home. ' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more. '
Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
You could say science also is an art.
If you say to the universe again and again, "How may I serve? How may I serve? How may I serve?" and you live a life of constancy reflecting that principle, the universe will respond back, "How may I serve you?"
My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO. ' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.
School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?
Wise men speak because they have something to say
Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?
So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
Repression is good for cultural achievement. Let's face it. What are gay boys going to be like? I always like to say the 19th-century gay boy was Oscar Wilde, the 20th-century gay boy was Stonewall and ACT UP. And in the 21st century, we have blocking people on Grindr. That's what we've accomplished. Without some kind of traction.
I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
The hard work is done. The training is done. I'm not gonna say too much.
Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it.
Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.
I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.