Art Quotes - Page 226

You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but that's all you've got. Harden your heart and make the best of it.

Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted to become very strong myself when I first began. But Karate training soon teaches that real strength is facing oneself strictly, with severe eyes. This is the first condition of martial arts training. Therefore, all karateka must be strong inwardly, but quite gentle to others. As we train together, each contributing to a good atmosphere, let's try to bring out that serious strong mentality from deep inside.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.

The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.

With respect to the ocean being the heart of our blue planet: We are often asked, 'How much protection is enough?' We can only answer with another question: How much of your heart is worth protecting?

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

Push yourself, when you get smart up top (in your head), your skills will fall right into place.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.

In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

Cultivate the heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love. This crop has to be raised in your heart and should be shared with others.

I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.