If we know that the inevitable setbacks and frustrations are phases of the natural cycle of creative processes, if we know that our obstacles can become our ornaments, we can persevere and bring our desires to fruition. Such perseverance can be a rea...
I have written this book to encourage women to dream big, forge a path through the obstacles, and achieve their full potential. I am hoping that each woman will set her own goals and reach for them with gusto. And I am hoping that each man will do hi...
When the flames of life are gnawing away at your butt, run faster, quicker, and harder than you've ever run before, because I guarantee it that life will condition you, harder than any trainer ever will. When you state to yourself with the utter most...
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intell...
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics.....
The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph. A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe,...
We are on this earth for a very short time. People need to take advantage of the situation given to them. If you want to succeed, there is always away. But instead people put up obstacles and walls and say "It's impossible,I'm to busy,I don't have ti...
After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, "In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony." I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it w...
Hope? Hope is not the absence of tragedy, my friend. It is the conviction that tragedy can be endured. Hope is the spark in you that is not subdued in the face of the vast and callous indifference of the universe. Hope is that which is not shattered ...
It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history.
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
The greatest wonderful feeling is falling in love.
To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.
A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.
…each found her greatest safety in silence…
