Kind Quotes

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots

Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

I'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

If (Black) is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.