How Quotes

I've produced and gotten to do a lot of optimistic love stories, and that was so where I was at for 10 years in my life. And now I feel like, Okay, now I know how to do that. I want to get scared again; I want to feel the way I felt when I started my company, when I started producing.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?