Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.
Popularity is not leadership.
Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what. . . Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.
I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.
Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.