I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.
Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why.
Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
Like a lot of us, I went through some phases on the way to finding what I felt comfortable in as myself.
I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
