Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.
There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves you best. If you systematically apply to the art that you create the aggression of the world that turned you towards art in the first place; if you, in turn, become the aggressor towards your canvas, the thing that you're doing; if you, in turn, work your will upon this thing that you want - you will then cause a dissatisfaction in this life that you create.
Develop a cause beyond yourself. Try to leave the world a better place because you were here.
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.
No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.
I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.
We do have the ability to shift our paradigms - by shifting our belief systems, by working on ourselves, by looking very closely at how we show up in the world. It's why I'm into health and wellness. It's why my partner and I are very focused on creating a life that is about being connected; it's about being present. Because my life was probably so much in the past. I was so fearful. I was so fearful of the future because I was so scared of my past. So if you can work towards being present, then you can shift.
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
Your real job in this world is to be you.
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.
I've got to be the geekiest guy in the world in a lot of ways. I'm like a zeta male.
God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.