I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“How come you’re in such a good mood? You couldn't have gotten much more sleep than I did last night. Are you… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Everyone who became great at something has a similar story: For years, they worked on their craft every day, even if they… — Derek Sivers Copy Share Image
Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but… — Jim Coleman Copy Share Image
I love to write but it lays real heavy on your mind. Because I'd have to get so involved in ideas, I'd… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I… — Radha Ravi Copy Share Image
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“We often say, “I am not very happy. I am not content with the way my life is going. I am not… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a… — Ernie Lyons Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I wrote, in total, about 50 or so songs (finished and unfinished) in the 2 and a half years leading up until… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Moods are not to be confused with emotions. Moods will dispose you to having an emotion. Certain moods you're more likely to… — John Rogers Searle Copy Share Image
Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels… They must not be turned into a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Brand-image campaigns establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of… — Rosser Reeves Copy Share Image
I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline… — Mary Wigman Copy Share Image
![“Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.” quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/051/ludwig-wittgenstein-582_december_schiller-writes-in-a-letter-to-goethe-17_1906986.png)
