A.A. Allen Quotes

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

Mosquitos ruin the safari.

There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

I haven't had a lot of 'Games Of Thrones' groupies. The fans seem to be really nice. They don't seem that invasive.

God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens.

Southward, two mighty ranges of the Appalachians shouldered their way into the blue distance like tremendous caravans marching across eternity.

To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

Let's all try to conserve water. But it's OK to shower.

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.

You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.