I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.
Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.