Opportunities come in all shapes and sizes but, more importantly, make way for us to make good decisions that have a roll-on effect for others.
I'm always going to use music, use culture as a tool to engage people to have this dialog, to enable others. That's very important.
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.
But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.
It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!
When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
We didn't slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.
However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
