You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.
All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled,. . . We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.
We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.
First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were made.
Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.
Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the recognized possibility of failure in fact occurs. But over time, more thoughtful decision-making will lead to better overall results, and more thoughtful decision-making can be encouraged by evaluating decisions on how well they were made rather than on outcome.
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing. . . . this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.