How Quotes

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they're overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.