Galen Beckett Quotes
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
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A lot of the album is made of love songs I've written over the past three or four years that have lasted the test of time. It's probably the thing that connects the songs together other than the sound of my vocals.
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Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.
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That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
