It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
I remember when I first started, the first movie I wrote that didn't get made I was aghast. 'Wait a minute, that's not how this is supposed to work. You write a move and it gets made!'
The real world is where the monsters are.
I woke up in morning and saw, world has moved on
Life can be hard in the real world.
Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me?
If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me.
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
