The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable.
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our la...
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.
You define yourself by either what your clients want or what you believe they'll need for the future. So: Define yourself by your client, not your competitor.
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.
We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
You're not better than anybody else, but you're not less than anybody else. You're a child of the Most High God.
I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.
I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
