S Austin Quotes

Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.

I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.

Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

Through the dripping weeks that follow One another slow, and soak Summer's extinguished fire and autumn's drifting smoke.

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Chemistry [between people] is not the easiest thing to evaluate. Just like talent and health, these things can change.

You have to be better than your problems.

If I was not racing then I would own a ranch where people could come and hunt. It would be fun and laid back every day.

A climate in which belief may flourish

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered.

Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil." You don't become a world-class villain overnight." -Dr. Impossible

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

Become a documentarian of what you do.

If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.

Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.

You're ready. Start making stuff.

Inertia is the death of creativity

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.

It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.