Secret Quotes - Page 96

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

I asked a director once what the secret of it all was, and he said you have to be so prepared that you are willing to throw all your preparation away in the moment when you see something better. That's a phenomenal piece of advice. It's been my compass through the process of making films. But you can really only do that if you're prepared. You can't wing it.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

The secret now is to be disciplined. It's so easy to get carried away with things valued on the hereafter.

I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

Television's getting better because people are investing more money and time and respect into it. But the secret weapon of television is that, because it's a slow burn, you get to meditate on things and develop them. As opposed to film, where you have an allotted amount of time and hopefully you can wrap it up in there.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

I had top-secret clearance and everything. I was working on a couple of projects that would keep me involved in Desert Storm. I was in the mix, which is scary.

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.

A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.

I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.