Ultimately Quotes

Ultimately I look at the long-term goal of communicating messages. Although I’ve seen some traumatic things, delivering messages of comfort and closure allow for a sense of peace.

Ultimately, as a director, you try and tell people where to look, but unlike film or television, where you force them to look at something, you can’t control it completely.

Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.

It’s possible I’m a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn’t have any audience at all. Ultimately, I’m my audience. I’m writing stories for myself. I don’t have kids of my own, and I don’t hang around kids all that much. Maybe that puts me at a disadvantage.

That’s ultimately the thing that sticks out to you most, that’s most important to me, is that I have the respect of my teammates.

I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that’s the case with Sarah Palin‘s conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she’s sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope – I really hope.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people’s lives improve.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it’s really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer’s strongest books.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn’t satisfying me 100%.

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have – every detail matters.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Ultimately, any government is one which enjoys the majority of support of members of Parliament to carry out a policy.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life‘s work. I couldn’t sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I’m attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

People know that when they watch an Ainsley programme or get an Ainsley book it’s going to be something that is approachable and something that is achievable and ultimately something that is rewarding.

Evolution is ultimately why cancer is so deadly. Take two biopsies from different sides of a tumor, and they can be genetically very different, making it that much harder to fight. Variation is the toolbox of evolution, and this variation gives cancer strength.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone‘s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they’ve been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don’t want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you’re truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease.

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of cohabitates in the same fishbowl is ultimately a bigger part of the story than people outside of the fishbowl really know.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.

Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can’t choose the consequences of your choices. They’re preloaded. It’s a package deal.

Yazoo was Vince’s sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.

When you cut human beings down to size, we’re really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they’re about gratification.

According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.

If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I’ll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I’ll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don’t have to be that brilliant to figure out that you’re ultimately going to affect the end product.