C.L. Bennett Quotes

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

You need fear to create, to live.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.

I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest.

Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.