If you want a sense of purpose for experiencing pressures, use your knowledge of Jesus Christ's comforting, enlivening, energizing presence to be a comfort to others.
I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally.
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way.
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.
This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.
There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me, it was important to have some sense that my failures weren't unique.
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.
