I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.
Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.
I'm not going to pretend that I'm something I'm not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have to act a certain way.
The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
There is no way I could have played fourteen years in the NFL if I didn't work my butt off on the practice field perfecting my technique or spend hours upon hours in the film room studying defenses.
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
I want to last in my career, and that relies on the way my body performs. So I need to take care of it.
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.
Gavin DeGraw - his first record is the reason that I wanted to start writing music. The way that he says something that everybody says on a regular basis but he says it differently. It makes you kind of perk up and listen.
Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
