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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
If I couldn't get to where I wanted to by being my organic self — which is a smart, funny, unapologetically black woman — then I felt like it's not worth doing it if I can't do it the most organic way possible. Which is why I left the music business.
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
When I'm traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It's a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.
I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist'. Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.