Seamus Heaney Quotes

Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.

Seamus Heaney

• Art
• Achievement
• Survival
• Credibility

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• I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Thought
  • Name

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Life
  • World
  • Change

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Education
  • Serious

• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Car

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Independent
  • Far

• The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Son

• It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Interesting
  • Learning
  • Thought

• If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.

  

  Eminem
  • Music
  • Political
  • Girl

• The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• I will be the answerAt the end of the line.I will be there for you,Why take the time?In the burning of uncertainty,I will be your solid ground.I will hold the balanceIf you can't look down.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Why

• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  

  John Robinson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Broken

• The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

  

  John Walters
  • Food

• When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Good
  • Art

• Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Good
  • Art
  • Science

• We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • World
  • Art
  • Rhythm

• Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Art
  • Achievement
  • Survival