A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era is how you think, not how you feel.

It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.

Time is a most versatile resource. It flies, marches on, works wonders, and will tell. It also runs out.

Great achievers are willing to die as hatrick dream scorers rather than to live as disappointed spectators! They keep the running to make it happen!

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

I like to say I don't have a fear of heights. I have a fear of human error. I'm very concerned about stupidity.

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.