We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
I would not let my children act when they are young!
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I ‘should’ want. Sometimes there is no ‘should,’ there’s only a single chance to grab on to happiness.
If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.
Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way around.
Don't let anything without a heart beat you.
It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.
Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
Let Catholics build their own churches and works.
Don’t wreck my reputation Let me wreck my own
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.
Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.
Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
