The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defen...
was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for t...
1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing adult books.) 4. Write with honest emotion 5. Be careful of being facile 6. Be wary of preaching 7. Be prepared for serendipity Fi...
My goal is not to be perfect or normal. My goal is to be WHOLE.
A first love always occupies a special place.
When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.
The Army's always had a special place in my heart.
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as muc...
ECONOMICS IS HAUNTED by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, sa...
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they p...
Emmet: You don't have to be the bad guy. You are the most talented, most interesting, and most extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things. Because you are the Special. And so am I. And so is everyone. The prophecy is ...
[to Lord Business] Vitruvius: One day, a talented lass or fellow, a special one with face of yellow, will make the Piece of Resistance found from it's hiding refuge underground, and with a noble army at the helm, this Master Builder will thwart the K...
Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.
Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.
You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.
Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.
We're a rock group. we're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.
