If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it's true That who is what and what is who." - Winnie-the-Pooh
I know you weren’t born to make people happy, but if you did one day someone else will make you happy too.
The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.
What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
Why don't I forget the past? Because those memories and I haven't change when everything else is changed including you.
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
Atheism is a religion of egoism....they hate the name "God" so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
