Pamina Magic Flute Quotes & Sayings

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a "wait and see" attitude, but rather one of "just be there" ... Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being open to whatever comes your way. When you begin to solidify expectations, you get frustrated because they are not met in the way you had hoped ... With no set idea of how something is supposed to be, it is hard to get stuck on things not happening in the time frame you desired. Instead, you are just being there, open to the possibilities of your life. — Lodro Rinzler

Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality. — Zbigniew Herbert

People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge. — Jerry McNerney

The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway. — Thomas Lennon

it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character, — Eric Ries

I would not suffer anyone to endure the path I walk. My road must always be traveled alone. — Julie Kagawa

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea. — Hank Haney

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level. — Noah Hawley

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. — Rodney Alexander

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? — Dan Barker

My heart breaks to see the world in such turmoil. — Billy Graham

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method. — W. Edwards Deming

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life. — Chloe Sevigny

What critics miss, however, is that there is no such thing as non-narrative thought, free of possible worlds and ongoing enactments. There are always multiple narratives at work, framing our perceptions, memories, active thoughts, decisions and actions. — Venkatesh G. Rao

I want to get my eight hours and be able to eat good meals and not be sluggish or anything like that. My body is my temple, and I've always thought that. — Bryce Harper