I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.
And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
It's just really, really beautiful. Each scene is one long 15 minute take without cutting. My scene is with Robin Wright-Penn so I'm pretty excited about that.
It seems to be impossible to hold a credible election without reforming the electoral system.
I don't leave my house - I don't care if it's raining or scorching hot out - without a face cream with a minimum of SPF 15, if not more.
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.
People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control without paying out of pocket. This lets women make the health care decisions that are right for them and puts every one of us in charge of our own reproductive health.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
