“I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.” WantArtistPracticePaintingShapesGoldenGolden Rule Author:Wayne White
“People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape?” PeopleWantTryingEyeShapesTrying To ChangeAlmonds Author:Miley Cyrus
“I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.” PeopleWayWantTryingKindHelpingUsePainShapesEternityWant U Author:Max Lucado
“We were coming from a completely different place, which was saying "sound" is what you want to define it as, and you can shape it into music in whichever way you want.” WayWantDifferentSoundShapesWhat You WantDifferent Place Author:Stephen Mallinder
“I change myself a lot. Some roles you don't want to be big, bulky, muscle-y guy and some roles you want to be a lean, marathon-runner physical type. And some roles you just don't want to be in shape.” WantBigsGuyRolesTypeShapesMusclesRunnersMarathonMarathon Runners Author:Patrick Heusinger
“I want my mom to be able to wear my clothes, I want my older sister to be able to wear my clothes, and the people in my life aren't necessarily built like I am, you know? They're built in a million different beautiful bodies, shapes, and sizes, and so why would I exclude anybody from being able to have it? This is the point.” PeopleKnowsWantDifferentBodyAbleBeautifulMillionsMomShapesClothesBuiltSizeMy MomBeing A MomOlder SisterBeautiful BodyBody Shapes Author:Zendaya
“It's one of my favorite times of day. I'll have an array of notes, things that I want to think about. Something will start to take shape, and I'll play around with it. It's not usually an intense time. It's sort of a playful time. But it's when some really good thoughts arise.” ThinkingWantPlayShapesNotesMy FavoriteAriseIntenseGood ThoughtsTime Of Day Author:Lynne Rae Perkins
“If I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want to do? And what I want to do is what I'm doing. I enjoy coming up with new ideas, which if I'm lucky they might be good ideas. I enjoy seeing them take shape. And I'm having fun doing it. So I wouldn't know why I'd want to retire.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWellsIdeasMightFunEnjoySeeingShapesLuckyBe GoodHaving FunRetiringGood IdeasNew IdeasRetired Author:Stan Lee
“When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs.” ThinkingKnowsWantShouldBigsLastsFormSongRecordsShapesSingingAlbumsReleaseWeedLast DayBig Questions Author:Johnny Cash
“Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.” WantEnoughGrowthFieldsShapesFixingPlaying FieldsTilt Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.” PeopleWantHandsGovernmentEconomyDemocracyShapesSufficientRetaining Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'” WantYearsDoneRegretShapesSkillsWake UpI RegretLife Regret Author:Georges St-Pierre
“You can take a look at the enrollment at major institutions of higher learning. It's 65% female, 35% male. One of the reasons is, men don't want to go there anymore.But this is a manifestation... Remember our old buddy James Brown addressing men, said that it's time to shape up or ship out. He said we have got to stop this business of making fun of men who "throw like girls."” MenWantLooksSaidReasonRememberGirlFunHigherShapesMajorsFemaleInstitutionsMalesShipsManifestationBrownBuddyHigher LearningEnrollment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.” PeopleWayWantTryingKindMeanDoeHelpingUsePainShapesEternityAbsenceWant U Author:Max Lucado
“As a producer, I really get to tell stories that I care about in a way that I want to. I get to shape them. I get to choose the collaborators. That's really gratifying as a storyteller. And also, frankly, it's really fun to create jobs for other people.” PeopleWayWantStoriesCareJobsFunShapesProducersI CareStorytellerCollaborators Author:Elizabeth Banks
“The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...” WantUsedOpinionShapesToolsVotersJust BeingDepressingPublic OpinionPollsSuppressionVoter Suppression Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksRaceCrazyTypeShapesSkinsNosesMakeupDragSurgeryCrazy Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” IfsWantLifeInspirationalMotivationalActionChoicesChangeOur LivesHabitDisciplineShapesDirectEssenceEncouragementConsistentConsistentlySelf DisciplineEncouragingWords Of EncouragementTake ControlAwaken The Giant WithinWords Of CourageEncouraging WordsEncouraging LifeEncouraging Uplifting Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.” WantPersonsSometimesTeacherShapesAbsenceIgnoredGreat TeacherBeing Ignored Author:Julia Roberts
“I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.” WantI CanMatterSeemsGoalCan DoInspireShapesProveCan Do SomethingInspire OthersInsurmountableFitness Goal Author:Ruben Studdard
“When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.” IfsThinkingWantGivingArtMadeBodyRealityEyeSpiritWaterSeaMovementShapesRiversPatternsFishesSpeedScalesBoatLakesFishingFlashFloatingFins Author:Constantin Brancusi
“[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?” IfsWantMindDoeColorShapesEssenceSentencesVisibleChemicalsWant MeBlackness Book:Shopgirl Source: Shopgirl
“The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.” PeopleWantNeedsFactsActionPoliticalCertainBlackWhiteQualityPolicyColorJudgingShapesSkillsElementsGainsSkinsBasesRegardResponseJudgedPeersConservatismRefusalAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Cornel West
“If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.” IfsWantNeedsHas BeensSelfPainDesirePossibilityShapesGardenCastsMonstersConsumersAdamToilHuntersSerpentAdam And EveDrudgeryHunter Gatherers Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?” PeopleWantLoveHeartPersonsMadeEnoughPainCausesLosesLossLove IsTroubleLove YouMy HeartFitShapesHolesGrievingOver ItGapsPregnancyGet OverSomeone You LoveHole In My Heart Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.” PeopleIfsWantLooksImportantMatterUsedNamesMaterialsShapesCreatingItemsZestGusto Author:Ray Bradbury
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.” WantNeedsTwoMomentsFacesHugeHairPerspectiveWallShapesPerceptionIllusionSkinsDepthDetailsSurfaceTinyDimensionsMapsFlatsYour FaceArrangementsLive In The MomentMoleculesFutilityDiagramsForeground Author:Margaret Atwood
“I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.” WantSometimesHandsBeautifulFormFunTearsShapesComfortableDrawsGardenBurdenHumbleUglyAdmirationAwkwardShellsFamiliarityTenacityResentGlovesAdaptabilityOystersSlate Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA