It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest wor...
One of the best things you can do in life is to embrace who you are. Once you do that NOTHING can stop you. You have found the greatest gift that has been given. The gift of self importance.
The greatest gift that anyone can give anyone is LIFE. And the greatest sin a person can do is to take away that life. NEXT to that, all rules and religions in the worldare secondary, mere words and beliefs that people CHOOSE to believe and KILL and ...
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. ...
God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with...
the parts of the brain corresponding to the limbic system (thought to respond only to more visceral, immediate rewards) were activated only when the decision involved comparing a reward today with one in the future. In contrast, the lateral prefronta...
Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the ...
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.
Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.
I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
