Inspiring Quotes - Page 70

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The reality is, sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose, you're never too big to lose, you're never too smart to lose, it happens.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Words cannot convey the value of yoga - it has to be experienced.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

Stop selling. Start helping.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Fear Allah, for He alone lives; all other things are liable to perish.

Whatever you're thinking, think bigger.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.