Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Roskam

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

Granth Sahib

Who can kill that person, whom the Lord has saved? The Creator Lord Himself delivers him

Simone Beauvoir

It is easier to think of the world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.

Akira Kurosawa

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.

Lisa Gansky

Those projects most successful on Kickstarter - those that receive funding completely and quickly - do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged.

Lex Luger

I thought surrendering was a weakness; instead it's the strongest thing a man or a woman can ever do, to acknowledge our Creator who's in control of all things.

Kage Baker

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is.

Mary Quant

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets.

Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

William Shakespeare

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Gloria Gaither

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

C. S. Lewis

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Carrie Chapman Catt

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islam lays great emphasis on the social side of things. Every day, the rich and the poor, the great and the small living in a locality are brought five times in a day in the mosque in the terms of perfect equality of mankind and thereby the foundation of a healthy social relationship is laid and established through prayer. At the end of Ramazan comes the new moon, the crescent as a signal for a mass gathering on the 'Id day again in perfect equality of mankind which effects the entire Muslim world.

William Shakespeare

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.