Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

If you can't use dividends, it's not a bad thing to give it back to your shareholders. They'll use it somewhere else.

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

You give your power away when you make someone or something outside of you more important than what is inside of you.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate

Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I’m taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn’t that like enough?

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

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