My Way Quotes

Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.

Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.

I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people.

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

I live in Manhattan now, because, in a way, it was my fantasy.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.

Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James Madison, he was pretty clear about it.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to study and learn, and I've always been that way.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

Things have a way of falling into place.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.

The way you write affects what you say.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.