Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Question authority... Then ignore it!
The figure of the crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.
I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.
I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.
Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.
'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.
The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
