“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.” IfsWellsKindI CanDifferentEndsPlayCharacterWould BeAbleBeautifulKnownCareersApproachCraftsThe End Of The DayDifferent KindsBeautiful Life Author:Adepero Oduye
“A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.” IfsThinkingKnowsPersonsAbleBeautifulGuyCultureWalksLike YouPerceiveAttractiveFlawsRealisingCommodityBeautiful WomenIntimidatedImpurityAttractive Woman Author:Neil Strauss
“I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.” BelieveAbleBeautifulI BelieveCoupleShotsCapabilityBeautiful ThingsPrecisionMosquitoes Author:Alexis Arguello
“The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!” PeopleThinkingKindStillsDifferentAbleBeautifulSidesSinLevelsCitiesGrowingTreeMonthsFlowRiversSickFruitHealParksHeavenlyRebellionDifferent KindsBoth SidesDisobedienceVery BeautifulFruit TreesBeautiful TreesRebellion Against God Author:David Berg
“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.” IfsTryingLooksKindMeanInspirationAbleBeautifulAnswersSituationApproachChaosConfusionAll KindsDevelopingEnlightenedLiberatingVery Beautiful Book:The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa Source: The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa
“My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.” PeopleIfsWayWantHelpingShowsCareAbleBeautifulBlackWhiteAudienceMirrorsGreenDanceDon't CareI Don't CareDancerPurpleBlack Or White Author:Alvin Ailey
“Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.” IfsAbleBeautifulHugeListeningSittingWindowSmall ThingsMake You HappyBeautiful MusicBeautiful Picture Author:Kathleen Hanna
“However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.” WorldShouldBelieveLooksMayMeanDreamMightAbleTogetherBeautifulFightingBrainBreakChildhoodQuietBluePrisonWorking TogetherAfternoonFierceOur ThoughtsOur DreamsFistsUnimportantBreak OutBeautiful World Author:Cressida Cowell
“Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.” WantAbleBeautifulLyingFalsehoodSuccessionBeautiful Lies Book:The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.” SoulFeelingsAblePainBeautifulJoyPleasureSorrowCreaturesFellowsAddMiseryYour SoulEnjoymentRemoveGrainReplacedHarvestDiminishBosomsSanctuaryThoughts And FeelingsPluckPeace And Joy Author:Jeremy Bentham
“My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.” TwoBookHomeDreamWould BeAbleBeautifulPayMinutesProduceOffersFinishedDustCopiesPrintJacketsScenariosFeesBookshops Author:William Gibson
“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated... I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that [before his trip to India, circa 1975] I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.” FirstsLooksSaidUseHappensAbleBeautifulFirst TimeIndiaPrejudicePropertyEmbarrassedPurpleEleganceSilkRags Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.” IfsLooksMeanPersonsAbleBeautifulHumanityTurnsSeeingPhotographyUgly Author:Zana Briski
“I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.” ThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsMayBookUseWould BeAbleBeautifulHouseFocusOne DayThousandStandardsBuyingLoadCollectorsBucketsSnapshotsBeautiful Images Author:Ransom Riggs
“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.” ThinkingWellsDoeShowsAbleBeautifulNightReadingPiecesFrontsJokesScriptsWorriedComedianEndeavorSwingsAthleticDeconstructionFluidity Author:Stephen Colbert
“The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.” PeopleArtRunningAbleBeautifulCommonAppreciateSatisfiedOrnamentsConnoisseurSimply Beautiful Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe