Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.
You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
Michael: I feel a lot of distance, and I feel far away.
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night...
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
