God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your langua...
[To] mechanical progress there is apparently no end: for as in the past so in the future, each step in any direction will remove limits and bring in past barriers which have till then blocked the way in other directions; and so what for the time may ...
He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his t...
As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull was coming back, I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction...
Generally, I move in the direction of art.
I don't direct the plays of others.
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
If you want to direct, you've got to work.
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.
A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.
A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
