Down And Quotes - Page 2

Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

I never back down and I never quit!

Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.

In the act of worship itself, the experience of liberation becomes a constituent of the community's being . . . It is the power of God's Spirit invading the lives of the people, "building them up where they are torn down and propping them up on every leaning side".

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.