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The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement
Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.
Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.
Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.
Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.
I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.
The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.
I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.
The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself
The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
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