On The Way Quotes

The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid in her stomach because her heart no longer knew what to do with them.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

The ideas choose me, not the other way around.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

Not that I ever did anything wrong. I was just aggressive. That's the way I am in my life.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people.

Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.

I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove.

When I'm doing TV, it's more of a choreographed dance, in a way. So I've got to follow the pictures, or the pictures have to follow me.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

I considered people who didn't like my work to be in some way defective, deficient, lacking a sense of humor, and not understanding what was really going on.