He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.
The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.
Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.
Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.
There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.