Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.
Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.