Giving Quotes - Page 390

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.

Your 'frog' should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one where you're most likely to procrastinate; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day.

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term "activism," which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. . . . We made giving exciting.

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

What is so interesting about giving is not only that it pays, but that it pays in such unexpected ways. When you live with generosity, blessings come to you from corners and avenues you never would have expected.

To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."

... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.

I have a brother who gives socks for Christmas. He gives socks. Every year, I get a pair of socks from him.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

The world that is coming toward us out of time is going to be very much richer in a mental sense because (among other freedoms) we are going to get a modicum of freedom from linguistic frameworks, from familiar mental habits. Anyone who really knows two or more tongues realizes that even that small enlargement of liberty . . . gives him new perspectives, exercizes his soul anew.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.