Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour.
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.
Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.
I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not.
You have to see my show to believe that I'm the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.
Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
Crunches only go so deep.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.
My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when my friend was at university there. I've always found it a friendly place and has a good night life.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.
Power tires only those who do not have it.
