Ways Quotes

My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years.

Different people work different ways.

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction,' you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.