I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.
Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
Artists make art. . . everyone else talks about it.
Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.
I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.
Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.
Persistence and love of one's work is the key.
I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana. " I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV. "
There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: 'In the long run we are all dead. ' And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.