You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. . . . To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already.
The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.
When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
The public trusts big data way too much.
The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him. . . He became one with the nature of Satan, so all those who had the nature of Satan can partake of the nature of God.
There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!
I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.
You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.
If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.
