I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.
Being healthy is something I learned from a very young age. Looking after yourself on the inside helps with your energy, makes your skin glow, and changes your whole outlook on life.
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with so...
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself...
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.
If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.
Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.
Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.
Ask yourself if I'm capable of contradictions, Draupadi. Some missions succeed only by their spectacular failure. - Krishn
you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.
