The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn’t? Mark Manson Read Quote
When my second child was born, I gave up acting – two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I’d always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do. Jenny Downham Read Quote
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. William James Read Quote
I see myself as a perennial expatriate because, frankly, I don’t think I fit comfortably in any conventional form of filmmaking, and I feel at the same time, depending on the project, I fit into many different ones. Guillermo del Toro Read Quote
Part of China’s strategic planning is to make their universities among the top level of the world, and I think they understand you can’t do that without the adoption of some of the principles of the great universities in the West; one of those is the ability to have free expression and discussion in the classroom. Stephen A. Schwarzman Read Quote
An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance. Ory Okolloh Read Quote
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents’ credit card information. Douglas Rushkoff Read Quote
I always tell people I’m not one of these guys that was, like, born with, like, a halfway decent body. Max Greenfield Read Quote
