It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.
It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.
Recipes don't work unless you use your heart!
Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.
Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.
I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
In America, we've had people that are political hacks making the biggest deals in the world, bigger than companies. You take these big companies, these trade deals are far bigger than these companies, and yet we don't use our great leaders, many of whom back me and many of whom back Hillary Clinton, I must say. But we don't use those people.
The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested in trivia; he does not put any energy at all into petty things. So whenever the time arises to give, he has to give. Energy is understanding. Be conscious of it and use your energy very consciously, and use your energy in such a way that you don't simply go on wasting it.
Step forward, use your voice, get out in the world, and live!
If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
Cary Grant was on the back lot one time doing a movie called "North by Northwest. " I would see Cary outside the stage, and he would sit on a set chair and had one of those reflectors. He wanted this tan so he didn't have to use makeup.
Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!
Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
Golf is like a razor. You get just so sharp and then it begins to dull a little more the more you use it.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.
I think the terminology I would use is 'a continuous process of reflection'. I've always thought of only two questions that have mattered to me personally. One is what is really needed in the world and the second is what's really important to me and how these two intersect. It's always been a reflective process - spiraling around these two poles.
We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
