You can begin to shape your own destiny by the attitude that you keep.
In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian. . . He's bound to lose perspective.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.
Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.
The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.
Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]
Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.
Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.