Moments Quotes - Page 119

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren't things I thought of in advance. They are more things I am given. What paint does, in watercolor more than oil but it happens in oil too, are things one never expects if you work freely. I suppose I learned a lot coming to this after years of playing improvisational music. I have to trust my intuition and I work in the moment, when that moment seems to be happening. And to leave it alone when it is not.

From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love.

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.

Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

Each moment presents what happens.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.