When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
We must get rid of the IRS. It’s a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.
You’ve got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She’s worked very hard to get where she is. I can’t take that away from her.
Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I’ve seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
With all due respect to lawyers, it’s wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven’t been qualified to be a mayor. I’m not qualified to be a songwriter. I’m not qualified to be a TV producer. I’m not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don’t know what qualified means.
People have said to me, You can’t write songs. You can’t play an instrument. But I’ve got 10 gold records.
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they’re comparing a criminal to an honest man.
People underestimate me, but I’ve always been a stretch runner.
I’m not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
I’m a maverick. I’ve always been a maverick.
I’m not homophobic, I’m not a bigot, I’m not pandering to hatred.
Creativity involves provocation, exploration and risk taking. Creativity involves “thought experiments.” You cannot tell in advance how the experiment is going to turn out. But you want to be able to carry out the experiment.
Instead of waiting for our attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for ‘directing’ our attention in a conscious manner.
Everything can be simplified. With enough simplification and enough patience on the part of the parent, anything can be simplified to the point that even very young children can begin to understand it.
A problem is simply the difference between what one has and what one wants.
Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one.
No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly defined by the programmer. In.
That wasn’t a mistake, was ’a fully justified venture which, for reasons beyond your control, did not work.
Thinking is the ultimate human resource.