Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.
Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.
Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn defenses.
I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!
If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.
I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
It's huge. You win the first game of the series, you want to win the series.
Sometimes you get the rap of, 'Don't always play hard,' or, 'Just doing it for the money.' But there are guys that genuinely love the game of basketball and are always playing it and are always out there. There are guys that work hard and actually understand the game and are very knowledgeable off the court as well.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.
As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
One of the great things about Silicon Valley is, irrespective of how competitive you might be with another company or how closely you might be working with that company, there's a great sort of give and take, and camaraderie from - between - some of the executives in the valley and some of the other investors in the valley.
I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.
