Chris Prentiss Quotes

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

Chris Prentiss

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Family

• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Help
  • Will

• There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Free
  • Enough
  • Internet

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Success
  • New

• I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Me
  • Spiritual
  • Cry

• In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Book
  • Author

• Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Literature

• My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Up
  • Great

• I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Town

• On taking office, Obama promised the 'most transparent' administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

  

  Bob Barr
  • History

• As much as people were asking me and everybody else on the show constantly if Jon Snow is alive or dead, I think, really, in their heart of hearts, they didn't actually want to know. For us, it felt very important to maintain that secrecy for the fans, and we worked very hard to make sure that worked out.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • City
  • Sex

• The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Way
  • Lose
  • Election

• Next to God, thy parents.

  

  William Penn
  • Parent
  • Next

• When we set aside the burden of judgment, then our hands and hearts are free to serve others with joy. Such service is truly the way of the Christian.

  

  Chieko N. Okazaki
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Christian

• The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Mind
  • Enlightenment
  • Concentration