'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Life started getting good when I started making money.
I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.
I started in television as a youngster and was 14 when I started acting professionally.
You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.
Start Living before YOU start Dying
I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was hardly the point of the calling.
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear V...
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha. 'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.
In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land," and point, and “This is sky," and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.
The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
