You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology.
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.
If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.
People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.
I believe in me more than anything in this world.
I love my fans more than anything.
More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
