While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
You will receive what you ask for no more, no less
I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think.
There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.
May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant
To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.
Learn from someone who has already been up there: no matter how unique you feel, there is always someone who has had the same dream before you and ended up leaving marks that can make your journey easier; places to hang the rope, trails, broken branches to make the walking easier. The climb is yours, so is the responsibility, but don't forget that the experience of others can help a lot.
When I have something to work against, it liberates my imagination. I believe very much in authentic inspiration. I'm not about calculation.
I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.
Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.
It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.
The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.
Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.
Inspiration is finding something that excites you.
All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,. . . that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.