If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.
A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.
The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no pressing economic need that the euro was required to solve, but leaders believed that it would foster growth.
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
I think piracy itself is going to end up going away.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France.
It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.
