As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generatio...
A one-inch error at the start can be a thousand miles at the end.
As soon as you have finished a job, you start appreciating the difficulties.
When you talk about future happenings the devil starts to laugh.
I'm short and to the point.
The point is to be involved in the moment.
I'm seven hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn't going to work. You won't even admit I exist to your parents." Alec stared at him. "I thought you were three hundred! You're seven huundred years old?" "Well," Magnus amended, "eight ...
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginn...
No, not of course at all—it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill again, toward winter. You call that ‘of course�...
Randall: Okay, I think I know how to make this all go away. What happens when the whistle blows in five minutes? Mike: I get a time out? Randall: Everyone goes to lunch! Which means the scare floor will be... Mike: ...Painted? Randall: EMPTY! I'll be...
You're gonna have to hold on tight, because this rodeo is just getting started.
Learn from the past, but don't be a prisoner of it.
Expect a flood of His goodness!
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.
I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.
Start small and start immediately.
Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
