I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
Whatever the reason for any one individual's tendency to gain weight, the only way to lose the weight is to eat less and exercise more.
We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.
I think Yahoo has been doing so many things well for so long and, frankly, got a little trapped in, I think, 'Oh, what is Yahoo?'
Our deep collaboration with ABC News further strengthens Yahoo! as the No. 1 online news source, greatly enhancing our already robust news content.
Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.
In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.
If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.
I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live them in ignorance. And this is everything.
If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.
People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.
