Pat Metheny Quotes

'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'

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• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Myself

• My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Day
  • motivation

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Think
  • Reading

• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Really

• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Time
  • Running
  • Ego

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Time
  • Change
  • Day

• My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Time
  • Guy
  • You

• My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• It's just really important that we have boundaries and guidelines to operate. Our homes, the cars, everything is going to be on the Internet. And so what are the guidelines? What do we want?

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important

• In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Food

• Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Why

• I don't want to come across as a pretty looking girl. Because it is very easy - wear good clothes, wear good make-up, and you'll look good. I know my abilities.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I have observed that people make strategic plans for brands, businesses, and companies, but they are not always strategic about themselves.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • People

• 'More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.'

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • Listening