S.W. Collins Quotes

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department then the sky really is the limit.

In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

I have no nerves, no emotion, no pressure.

I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.

The essence of profound insight is simplicity.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

... even the devil works for God.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

To me, the point of feminism is to be inclusive.

I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

If a guy can't handle your crazy pictures, he's probably not someone you want in your life.

For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.

Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things that make you beautiful.

Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.