Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.
I watch just as much WWE as almost anyone, but I love to. It's something I enjoy doing. I don't force myself to watch. I get excited for Mondays. I get excited to see the show.
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force.
Never permit fears, doubts, circumstances, laziness or the lack of ambition to force you into leaving any stone unturned.
Never force you way into a heart that refuses to make room for your presence. Respect your self-worth at all times.
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these sligh...
The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
