Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However after he has built what he wants he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place to fear not changing.
President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country and he has complete confidence in the American people.
It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and not least a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
Certainly anyone whom I've witnessed who has gone through something horrible and life-changing has a sense of ironic humor or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.