Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.
The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.
I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.
Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness
In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.
Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
You don't need great faith to move mountains, you only need to use the poor faith you say you have.
Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.
The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.
I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
