Inspiring Quotes - Page 36

• All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.

  Eddie Martinez

  Funny, Play, Way

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• If you want to work consistently, you have to be a team player.

  Russell Malone

  Funny, Team, Player

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• Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

  Howard Roberts

  Funny, Religious, Mysterious

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• I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

  David Torn

  Funny, Jobs, Hate

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• I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

  Richard Thompson

  Funny, Nice, Thinking

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• I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Funny, Mean, Thinking

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• I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair

  Dolly Parton

  Hilarious, Thinking, Hair

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• I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

  Viola Davis

  Hilarious, Hair, Who I Am

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• But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

  June Jordan

  Friendship, Mothers Day, Young Mother

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• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Leadership, Strong, Believe

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• By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

  E. B. White

  Heaven, Trying, Littles

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

  E. B. White

  Perfect, Waiting, Delay

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• When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

  E. B. White

  Aunt, Wife, Remembrance

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• A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Envy, Ease

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Dual Nature, Neglect

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• There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Biblical, Law, Foundation

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Filled Up, People

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, July, Iron

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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• The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Men, Giving

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.128, Beacon Press

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• An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Self, People, Personality

  "Conquering Self-centeredness". Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, August 11, 1957.

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• My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Our World, Trying

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• World hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so! God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That’s what we need in the world today - people who will stand for right and goodness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Our World, Law

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  People, Want, Complacency

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• Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Genius, Moron, Persons

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.142, Editions Didier Millet

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• I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Wife, Wish

  "One Man's View of the World". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 2013.

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