Larry Wall Quotes

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

There's a lot of dudes in my neighborhood that have handlebar mustaches. Which is cool if you want to have a handlebar mustache but don't try to have a conversation with me like you don't have a handlebar mustache.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons.

I want to try to become friends with Russia.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

If you don't agree with the direction something is going in, at least at work, you should always try it first, unless it's dangerous or damaging. But if you have an opinion about the direction your work should be taking, say it. Then back it up with proof and other solutions.

What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

I know what it's like to start something and have it suddenly grow out of control. And you want to get rid of it, because it's hurting you and everyone else around you, but every time you try to do that, it consumes you again.

I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is that, first, some scholars are trying to show to the audience that they are open to other trends. However, when it comes to the retreat or the panels, they don't want to be with some of us because they are scared of being exposed.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

I want to try the impossible to show that it can be done.

I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.