“I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.” IfsKnowsLongI CanEnoughChallengesRoomsPossibilityDifficultyAcknowledgeObsessedOverestimate Author:Michael J. Fox
“You're standing in a closet, and you've been in it so long that you can't remember that there's anything else, that there's a huge house with lots of rooms and there are lands outside the house and planets and universes and creations” WorldLongRememberUniverseHouseRoomsLandCreationIgnorancePlanetsHugeBuddhismStandingClosetsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.” GivingLongSaidRunningRememberLinesRoomsLaughingComedyLosingGive MeFoundationScriptsBobLong RunsDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my music cranked up, playing songs like Kanye's '808's & Heartbreak.' That playlist just was long!” WritingLittlesLongSometimesLastsRememberSongMy OwnRoomsBrokeGirlfriendSurroundBroke UpCocoonsPlaylists Author:Tristan Wilds
“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.” FeelsWritingYearsLongWhiteWalksRoomsPartyTeamBuildingExerciseRegardWineDrinkingFollowingCornersCorporationsBottlesDesksEmbarrassmentTeam BuildingShoutingLong WalksChristmas PartyWhite Wine Author:Will Self
“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.” WayLittlesLongI CanMomentsLightRunningLastsRememberFilmRoomsChildhoodWallDetailsSmellWanderLandscapeLong AgoHungScrap Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman
“It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.” LongFactsRoomsDoorsTreePropertyInstanceCuriousBeginnersOverloaded Author:John F. Carlson
“The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.” FirstsLongI CanRoomsWallTestsReactionsAbstractHanging On Author:Bill Vaughan
“The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.” PeopleKindLongImportantWinningWaterLossRoomsPayAttentionRecordsImportant ThingsBlowColumnsReally HappyLockersLocker Room Author:Dhani Jones
“So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.” NeedsHumansLongSelfJesusLeftChristBornRoomsJudgingJesus ChristMercySatisfactionDustPlentyCompareComparisonSelf-satisfactionMercy Of God Author:William Barclay
“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.” IfsLongFeltSpaceRoomsWonderFlowerSittingGardenJapanBootsBloomingHoveringBlooming FlowerDragonflies Author:Mark Tobey
“I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLooksLongMadeSometimesStoriesTogetherHateRoomsMarriedLong TimeLove StoryResentmentHappy Together Author:Elizabeth Gilbert