"English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life."

-- S. I. Hayakawa

#Opportunity Quotes #Keys Quotes #Participation Quotes

“You change or you hide your head in the sand.”

Source : "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.
“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
“You get up about 2-3 oclock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. Thats the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.”
“I'll forever be a Longhorn.”
“Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book”
“I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.”
“To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.”

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