I would want to be known as a great singer; that the records I've made and the performances that I've done to be remembered. But the voice is the most important thing. The showmanship goes along with it. But I want to be remembered for my vocal ability.
Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.
I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
Don't make excuses, just get it done!
When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.
There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be done, there are advantages and benefits which exist that are directly related to - and even rest upon - white privilege.
Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.
Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.
Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.
Big Texas (Nolan Ryan) is here. The reason I like to keep Nolan around is he is a reminder that when we got done with the Sammy Sosa trade, there was still some talent on the Rangers.
In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.
Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Hudson Taylor said, "The Lord's work done in the Lord's way will never fail to have the Lord's provision. ". . . The Lord's work done in human energy is not the Lord's work any longer. It is something, but it is not the Lord's work.
I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies. ' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.
a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.