The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.
Manipulating is just the way to proceed, to convince that what you're doing is important. Everyone is manipulating.
But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.
I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.
It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them.
Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.
I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.
I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
