Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • Women
  • Character

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Great
  • Things
  • Friendship

• Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Service

• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Mind
  • True

• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• I wonder wonder why the wonder falls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonder falls With everything I touch and hear and see

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Why
  • Wonder

• Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Important
  • Independent
  • Judge

• We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Bored

• If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

  

  Frank Lane
  • Storm
  • Sunshine

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Game

• Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Strong

• Games that make you feel good about yourself are good games to be playing.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Good

• I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Prince

• I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • Together

• My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Cardio

• I was not really scared on my spacewalks. We practice so much and need to stay so focused that it has a calming effect on me. I do a kind of visualization and meditation in the airlock prior to going outside, to guide my first activities once I get out in space.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Space
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Help

• I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

  

  James Polshek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Art

• The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Meditation
  • Praying
  • Asks