I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.
Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!
The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.
It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.
Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for itself. Self can be realized; not by knowledge but by revelation.
A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.
I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape.
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
To be honest, my friends weren't really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.
I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.
A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: 'You're not making me happy, you're not doing this, you're not doing that.'
