The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and s...
Sometimes I just wonder,like,how could anyone else possibly be this lost,too?!Sometimes the words are so beautiful and true and unsettling I just want to hug my book and make sure nobody else in the world ever reads those words,because they are mine,...
I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Som...
If you have nothing else to offer me, offer me your smile.
He who covets the belongings of someone else loses his own.
He who is waiting for someone else's bowl often dines late.
From someone else's cart you have to get off halfway.
I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.
You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!
People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
'Jaws,' first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.
