Every single one of us has the potential to change someone’s life by just taking the time to listen to them
It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
One of my favorite comedy performances of all time is Charles Grodin in 'Midnight Run,' and in a lot of things he's done. I think he's hilarious as the straight man, playing it real.
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
I called my family, saying, 'Guess what? I got a new show. It's about a cop who travels in time.' And they said, 'I think we've seen that one.'
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.
One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.
My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.