Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

Simplicity is a powerful thing, if you can find it.

Reporter: “What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?”

Sendak: “I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.”

Reporter: “Because kids can handle it?”

Sendak: “If they can’t handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it’s not a question that can be answered.”

The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?” And he’ll look stunned and say, “How did you know?” He doesn’t realize something’s always wrong, with everybody.

Technology alone is not enough. It’s technology, married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules, but by people following the rules.

Q: What do you think is one of the easiest things a guy can do to improve his look?
A: Like himself more.

In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show him emerging from the ocean like Ursula Andress. Sexual torture, too, if less creepy-glam than being stripped and painted gold. Vesper Lynd is Bond: never not in control, never without a plan, seducing to further her goals. She has to die so Bond can become her.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. … It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it’s a self-defeating goal. You can’t do it.

No, but you might rock five minutes a day.

Five minutes to write a blog post that changes everything, or five minutes to deliver an act of generosity that changes someone. Five minutes to invent a great new feature, or five minutes to teach a groundbreaking skill in a way that no one ever thought of before. Five minutes to tell the truth (or hear the truth).

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The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.

Brit-Silje: «Er det ikke mye kjekkere å spille på ordentlig?»
EirikE: «Jo! Men det er jo utrolig slitsomt.»

La oss lære å kjenne Herren, la oss jage etter å kjenne ham!

Han kommer like visst som lyset om morgenen. Han kommer til oss som regnet, lik vårregn som væter jorden.

You came here because we do this better than you, and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.