You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

I always take a story that’s kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

Don’t stretch your neck to see who is not doing it; you can do it better! Don’t turn to watch whoever is watching you; everybody is busily watching over his own actions at hand! Go,...

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y’know, aware of. That is...

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses...

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn’t help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and...

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between...

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what’s going on, the movie should work.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all...

Your smile can heal thousands; but your anger can kill millions. Your “hand-shake” can encourage tens of people while your “finger-pointing” can turn ten thousands away from you!

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

If you’re not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought...

It’s totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection – on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets...

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting – the kitchen and all...

A hallowed frequency withinThat, even in your darkest hour,You can always turn to.

Get a really good coat that will last a couple of years and that you can’t wait to put on when the weather starts to turn.

Classical scores go up and down; they’re kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more – they just drive and move forward, and they build and can’t go up and down...

I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I’d have to do is just turn the camera on and off.

‘Heel Turn 2’ is about a person who’s in a match, and he’s playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you’re standing in the middle of a ring, and you’re...

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of...

Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we’re going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.

One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot.

We can and must turn this around. If you’re going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they’re very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they’ve got – so often, they have no idea.

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move –...

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you’ll recover.

When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

When we turn on the lamp, it gives light to us. Not only for just brighten to us, It is to show so dark within us.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I have been an ‘Official’ all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go...

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

The Who, England’s most self-conscious band, have released ‘Quadrophenia,’ which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

It’s a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don’t exactly know how they’re going to turn out.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn’t really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

It’s hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.