A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.
You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.
I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my hear when mine is done with beat...
While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful...
Many people think I can't live a normal life because I don't have arms or legs. I could choose to believe that and give up trying. I could stay at home and wait for others to take care of me. Instead, I choose to believe that I can do anything, and I...
Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything - depression and mental illness and ruin and the loss of my wife and premature old age and loneliness - but I cannot tolerate, cannot...
Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every one follow his own inclination and habits; you cannot r...
The existence of consciousness is both one of the most familiar and one of the most astounding things about the world. No conception of the natural order that does not reveal it as something to be expected can aspire even to the outline of completene...
I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good that often comes as a result of pain. For there is nothing, from the lowest, weakest tone of suffering to the loftiest acme of pain, to which...
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither ...
