Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.
The past is ignorant of the present. Be careful in taking its advice.
And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Since we ate taking orders, get me some sunchips!
Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.
The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.
My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.
I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five. They feel they want to do something to express their support for what they've heard. The idea that they were taking orders is a particularly Western idea.
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging. . . . taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.
My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.
When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.