Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

John C. Maxwell

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

John C. Maxwell

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

Emily Dickinson

Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.

Elliott Smith

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Edie Brickell

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

Edie Falco

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

Eckhart Tolle

Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.

Eckhart Tolle

The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

Kenneth Edmonds

So most of the acting that's done are usually Canadians and because it's shot in Toronto, there's this law that you have to use Canadians for extras.

Carter Jenkins

Sometimes it's just a piece of tape. The other day it was a box of cereal. When we're shooting, he's not there; it's all visual effects. Acting is reacting, and when you don't have anything to act to, it's tough.

Michael Gardner

The whole fourth quarter they were acting as if they were behind. I tried to use my timeouts judiciously to calm them down.

J. L. Austin

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

Tony Shalhoub

I like to do things that are different from the last thing that I tried. That's the whole purpose of it. That was the reason I got into acting in the first place, to try diverse roles,

Jeff Church

In 1992, the Coterie formed a partnership with the graduate acting program at UMKC to have the third year graduating class make their Coterie debut each January-February. Because the program emphasizes the acting of classical material, the Coterie is able to produce plays that utilize the students' skills.

Jon Nadler

In a world where news stories continue to make ominous ripples, gold is acting like the thermometer of collective global anxiety.

Morgan Freeman

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

Jon Bon Jovi

I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.