Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav HavelRead
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.
In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
There's always that moment on every movie where you just go, 'Okay, this is that moment. I'm about to potentially fall flat on my face, and I might as well just dive in and see what happens.'
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.
If you start something, you shouldn't quit; that is what we were taught. If you're going to play, you might as well play to be your best.
What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.
It's important for us to know that our worth isn't defined by how well we do in our sport.
One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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