The poem is a form of texting. . . it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.
We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents. "
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.
Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life—which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.
Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.
Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't make the world a better place. It might make YOUR world better and YOU might feel better about YOURSELF, but it does NOTHING whatsoever for the victims.
When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no. "
She just keeps saying "He’s gone.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best. ' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so that we can all fix it. Nobody is saying, "We don't have a problem. " Nobody is saying that, "911 didn't happen. " What they're saying is, "We're not a fragile country, trust us to have this conversation, so that we can do this in the right way, in a more effective way. "
I'm hesitant to judge people. My favorite saying is "you do you. " But, hopefully, you don't have to seek external validation from others to feel good about yourself.
There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"