My Place Quotes
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live.
I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.
You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow.
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.
You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.
We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.
Even if people don't love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It's super fearless - which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Where are we? (Jericho) Noir’s happy place. It’s where he brings the beings he wants to play with. (Asmodeus) Punish. (Jericho) You say ta-mah-to. I say to-mah-to. (Asmodeus)
Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.
