On My Way Quotes

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.

"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.

I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.