When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

To act coolly intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home for instance or their friends have them.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers they take shots. But that's the way society has become especially in pop culture.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Yes it must be something that goes very well with my voice let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others and I don't pretend for instance to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

You know Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories no sudden plot twists it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes creatively and spiritually.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.

Whether you're winning or losing it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender and I refuse to stop making movies.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance and there is no more resistance.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

In too many instances the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances the seasons or the wind but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.