Brett Dennen Quotes

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Places
  • Mountains

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Positive

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • She
  • Opportunity
  • Mom

• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Music
  • Inspire
  • Define

• I felt his presence every day, beginning with the first day.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Day
  • Beginning
  • Presence

• For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Soul
  • Presence
  • Constant

• Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Life
  • World
  • Earth

• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Black
  • Earth
  • Space

• Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evil

• Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • High
  • Trump
  • Consciousness

• The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Mountains
  • New Hampshire

• Everything begins and ends with that special person's presence. All you want is them, around you.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Want
  • Presence
  • Begins

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

  

  Mel C Spice Girls
  • Recognition
  • Britain
  • Spice Girls

• When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

  

  Brett Lee
  • Game
  • Confidence
  • Aggression

• The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Inspire
  • Mountains
  • Presence