The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no control over it.
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.
My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.
I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
