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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.
To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail.
It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.
I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.
I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.
Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.
Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?
Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.
The place where we keep our clothes isn't always the only place where we keep our commitments.
Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.
There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.
We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.
In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.
Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.
There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.
I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.
When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.