Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.
Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind of expectation. And I think, like I said before, it's very hard to live up to that expectation when you really don't have that much power as an actor - in terms of your career path and the timing.
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
I've always wanted to be a footballer, and I've always believed that's the path I was going to go down.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.
We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.
I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.
When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path with that. It's very different when you say, 'I have an idea and it doesn't exist.' It's a very different path.
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.
Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.
Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.
I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That's my goal.
The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.
I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
Forks often arise from differences of opinion in the direction of a project. And tokens are increasingly a mechanism for voting on changes to their protocols. Since the point of a fork is to try a new path, the new fork may not want to port all of the prior holders opposed to trying the new path the fork was created to take.
We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
