When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.
When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money has been paid, and attention has got to be grabbed if you are not to be heckled off the stage or find your novel discarded in favour of the latest volume of 'Fifty Shades of Whatever.'
That was one thing that we learned, that the Klan was making an active recruitment pitch to the armed forces - not just in Colorado Springs, but in other parts of the country as well. With trained military personnel who share that ideology, you know you have a valuable soldier at your disposal.
When I tell you it's an Under Armour T-shirt, your question should be, 'What's it do?'
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.
If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
