Illumination Quote by Vivian Gornick Download Open image “You are the instrument of your own illumination.” — Vivian Gornick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Illumination Inspirational Instrument Instrument Illumination Instruments Light Love Music making
Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a… — Kenny Werner Copy Share Image
You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is… — Kathryn Hulme Copy Share Image
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit to which… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I had an affair with a downtown playwright. Two things about this man: He was an ex-alcoholic, and he was phobic about leaving the… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“He exuded wisdom-even the wisest...were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.” — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
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