Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps but biography is about chaps.

I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Marion Williams. I've sang for Lionel Hampton.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

When you make music or write or create its really your job to have mind blowing irresponsible condomless sex with whatever idea it is youre writing about at the time.

Time really has gone by fast. I don't know if your path is pre-written or what, but it's crazy how one thing just leads to another.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.

Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.

How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December in my memory is white as Lapland though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.

The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.

Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

We all make mistakes, everybody should be given a second-chance.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.