The problem is, I THINK, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my ORDER?' and we PROCEED right to dictating our order. When we have then ENDED that list, we HANG up.

We MAY EITHER PROCEED from PRINCIPLES to FACTS, or recede from facts to principles.

You can't have a SITUATION in which COMPANIES proceed on a permanent basis relying only on CASH from the GOVERNMENT.

Let the CONSEQUENCES be what they will, I am DETERMINED to PROCEED.

GENERALLY, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then PROCEED to SHOOT it down, because it's NEVER what you as an artist feel is RIGHT for you.

I always think I know the way a NOVEL will GO. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about DRAWING. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can PROCEED with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's DEATH, when I FELT this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the MIDDLE of life and WONDERING: 'What now? How to proceed?'

Alaskans need some certainty and CLARITY over how the Pebble Partnership intends to PROCEED. I understand the complexity of a project like this, and I appreciate the INVESTMENTS that have been MADE in Alaska already. But a reliable timeline has been missing, and I HOPE that the companies will provide one soon.

If children are GIVEN some REAL content, they can feel POWERFUL with their own UNDERSTANDING of it. I think a movie like 'Indian in the Cupboard' will instruct them how to proceed as people. They can think about whether they would have done something the way a character did, how they would have felt about an event in the STORY.