Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes

The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.

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• Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Hard Work

• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Poverty

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Purpose

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Culture
  • Years
  • Financial

• There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Food
  • Knowing

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Right
  • Intelligence

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Music
  • Play
  • Passion

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Knowledge

• In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Proud
  • Involved
  • Simon

• It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Why

• The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Artist

• The test in life nowadays is just trying to keep yourself charged up with enough good feeling. It's like, "OK what am I going to do to feel really good today?" Not like, some chick or a drink.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Feelings