My Way Quotes

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Actually, the world and America is upset and the only way to bring about a change is to upset it more.

Remember; the only way to fight negativity is with positivity. Stay focused on the dreams.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

Your life~the way it looks today is a result of your choices...What will you choose today for your tomorrows?

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.