The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.
I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
The first race is really just something that we will all need to get through. Until people see the cars in action I don't think they will understand how quick they will be, which means they are going to be tiring to drive.
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
Hollywood is full of beautiful people - but who knows how many are beautiful inside?
Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.
I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'
In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?
I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.
I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.
The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
As a kid, I remember crying and then noticing myself in the mirror and being fascinated by how that looked.
Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?
When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
As a defender, how much ground I cover isn't up to me. I'm defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
Just about every weekend when I was growing up, we would throw rods and rifles and tents and shovels and pickaxes into the back of the truck and then head off to the side of a mountain or the bottom of a canyon. Hiking, fishing, hunting, rock-hounding: this is how my parents passed the time.
If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won't happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.
How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.
I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.
Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.
I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.
I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.
The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.
We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means.
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.