Jack Gilbert Quotes

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

Jack Gilbert

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Work Hard

• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Fear
  • Understand
  • Lose

• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Bitter
  • Sour

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Why
  • Want
  • Day

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Future
  • Effort

• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • America
  • Eating

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Liked

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Learning
  • Actor
  • Scene

• You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'

  

  Trip Hawkins
  • Personality
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.

  

  Kirk Franklin
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Change
  • Reason

• Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Dream
  • Doubt
  • Castle