Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.
The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.
Once you accept and understand yourself, you do things for the right reasons, not the wrong ones, rather than being fuelled by your insecurities.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
I write with my left hand even though I'm right-handed, I walk backwards in a very safe place - anything that engages your brain.
You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.
Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Scoring a goal is an explosion of feelings. It's there immediately - bam! Before you kick the ball, you feel like you're 200 kilos. Then the ball leaves your foot, goes through the air and ripples the net. And for that moment, you're weightless.
Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.
Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up.
Donald Trump obviously knows nothing about what it's like to put your life on the line for your country. He's never risked his life for anything.
Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
Of course for your main rivals, you're going to get extra motivated for it, particularly if you haven't played him for a long time.
