If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.
One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their intellectual level.
When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.
We have a plan that creates universal access programs at the state level which allows folks to access insurance if they're denied by their insurer.
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
I use fast curves, pitched overhand and sidearm, fastballs, high and inside, and an underhand fade away pitch with the hand almost down to the level of the knees.
On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
One of my life's goals is to help women see things on a UTERUS level and not judge one another by the melanin content of their skin!
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low-level for experienced foodies, or don't offer enough hands-on training.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.