Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield
I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
Respect the boundaries of the world even as you strive to break through the boundaries of your own mind.
There is nothing more valuable in the writing process than a friend to hold you accountable to your own potential.
Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll write my own stories.'
Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.
Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.
Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.
Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!
