Miyamoto Musashi Quotes

Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

  

  Becky G
  • Inspiration
  • motivation
  • Industry

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Urban
  • Wildlife

• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Hand
  • Better
  • Determination

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Future

• High among the costs of immigration is the appearance among us of diseases that never before afflicted us and the sudden reappearance of contagious diseases that researchers and doctors had eradicated long ago. Malaria, polio, hepatitis, tuberculosis and such rarities of the Third World as dengue fever, Chagas' Disease and leprosy are surfacing here...

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Long
  • High

• He is energetic only in evading responsibility.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Responsibility

• People don't know much about what's going on on the ground in Iraq: what you see in the media is heavily censored.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • People

• More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Happy
  • Opportunity

• That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.

  

  Bill Le
  • Real
  • Money
  • Baseball

• I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn't have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Friend

• Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Curiosity

• The momentum of time is always going forward. You cannot repeat what has been done before. You can't go back.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Done
  • Repeat
  • Momentum

• If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Well I think what - the way things have improved obviously is that the killing has stopped in so for as there is no war. But if you talk to people in the north and east in general, there is a concern that the freedom that they expected as a consequence of the end of the war has yet to be realised.

  

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
  • People
  • Thinking
  • War

• I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. The more material that you have and understand and have a going in, then the more complex your character and the understanding of your character will be.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Way

• I've puzzled over the difficulty that students have with editing, and I think I've identified its source: It's their self-talk. We all talk to ourselves, inside our heads. That's what consciousness is.

  

  Richard Rhodes
  • Consciousness
  • Inside
  • Identified

• Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Thinking
  • Wasting