Ben Harper Quotes

Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

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• Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Design

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Happy
  • Wanted
  • Made

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Team

• My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Cardio

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Looking

• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Song
  • Start

• I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Business
  • Crazy

• Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

  

  Francois Arnaud
  • Time
  • Today
  • Political

• There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn't get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, 'Wow, I'm kind of over this.' But then we started really having fun on 'The Suite Life.'

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Action
  • Goals

• Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Alone