Ed Byrne Quotes

We live in ugly times.

I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything.

A lot of that worked itself out in the recording.

A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

The manner of your death is not your choosing. But how you prepare for death is

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved.

We must care. We must all care. And while I am working, while the governments is working, so must the people also work.

Chicago’s neighborhoods have always been the city’s greatest strength.

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.

What you are thinking now is creating your future life.

Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles.

We become what we think about. Energy flows where attention goes.

You create your future with the power of your intention. Intention is simply the conscious act of determining your future now.

To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us.

Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.

Love is... a positive force of life.

Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.

If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life.

When we open our minds to the unlimited creative power, we will call forth abundance and see and experience a whole new world.

You have to feel love to harness its power!

Remember that you are a magnet, attracting everything to you.

When you feel good you uplift your life, and you uplift the world.

I am a psychologically disabled person and it's difficult for me to get and hold down a job. When I don't work people accuse me of being lazy, taking advantage of government money

When you need money, it is a powerful feeling within you, and so of course through the law of attraction you will continue to attract needing money.

The law of attraction says like attracts like.

The Secret's message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.

Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.

We have so much love to give, and the more that we give, the more we receive.

Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good.

Whatever is in your magnetic field is attracting to itself, and so the more love in your field, the more power you have to attract the things you love.

Your thoughts become things!

To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.