When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.
Where the material ends, art begins.
There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.
It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.
I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.
It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize that some of the stories wouldn't have been told if you hadn't gotten to them. There is that sense of capturing a moment that was just about to go over the horizon.
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love.