Mom Quotes - Page 117

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love

I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go, 'That's pretty cool'-if you're playing at the local bar somewhere, or the coffee shop, singing songs, or if you have a gig somewhere and you're singing your own songs, I think that's some version of making it. ... It's not just about having commercial success; it's about having a great life.

It's all authentic. It's a great story. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

The present moment is the pivotal point of power.

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

Words are difficult and photography takes the words away from things. It's difficult to talk about something that seems to come very naturally to you, to explain a process. A moment is really difficult to put on paper.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.

I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.