Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by…

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave…

— Paul Wesley

In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a…

— Alan Lightman

My style of writing has been influenced by sort of scavenging the pieces of music that I've heard, and it'll just be a moment.

— Stephen Schwartz

I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last…

— Ian Anthony Dale

I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the…

— Nate Powell

Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to…

— Rajneesh

Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the…

— Francis Thompson

It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way."…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which…

— Luis de Camoes

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out…

— Kat Edmonson

Edge also implies what Ben Graham…called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at a price…

— Michael Mauboussin

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me…

— Marcus Aurelius

I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually…

— Colin Hanks

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

— Romare Bearden