I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.
Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine. " It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress. . . And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.
That kid can hit balls over buildings.