What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn
And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.
I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void
One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.
