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

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

  

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

  

  Dan Fouts
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• 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
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• 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
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• Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Strong

• 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
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• We worked with Max Martin's team, MXM, who are the best in the business as well. We worked with Stargate, which was phenomenal, and Victoria Monet.

  

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• I got into theatre kinda late by some standards, and I sorta fell into it. I had broken my ankle playing football, and my high school was doing a production of 'Barnum.' I could juggle, and my mom really wanted to get me out of the house. She said since I wasn't playing football and couldn't wrestle, maybe I should audition for the show.

  

  Colin Donnell
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• The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Long
  • Spiritual
  • Meditation

• It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Meditation
  • Lifelong

• If we were in tune and communing with God every moment, where would be the need to pray or ask for anything?

  

  Daya Mata
  • Love
  • Moments
  • Anything

• See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

  

  Neem Karoli Baba
  • World
  • Mother
  • Ego

• 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