In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.
I have been asking for Canada to take cybersecurity and other issues seriously and ensure that Huawei is not allowed to contribute to our 5G infrastructure.
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.
Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher)
'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
My mom's always asking me for hits and stolen bases and home runs and different things on Mother's Day and her birthday.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.
When you ask someone for their vote, you are asking them to place their confidence in you as the steward of the community, so it was humbling that people placed their faith and trust in me.
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.
What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?
Note that if I can get you to su and say something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it.
Whoever it is who's filtering stuff makes it seem like women want to be more than men. My understanding... is that we're asking to be treated the same.
We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
When you step off a plane into a place like Haiti, you're just surrounded by overwhelming stimulus: the people selling you things, asking you to engage.
All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.
If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.
We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
Asking others for input puts you in the driver's seat, and may feel less awkward than having to watch yourself on video.
I think you go through a stage where you're constantly asking questions because you're learning every day, and when it's like that you need to bring results with it.
I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.
[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my inauguration." And I think that's probably true.
The key to asking someone out is to not really ask. In other words, don't feel your sentence needs to end with a question mark.
Someone once asked me to do a video asking a girl out for them, I wasn't sure if that was appropriate, but I did it anyway. I hope it was a success!
Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'
Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.
There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
I think every year, my role changes. And I am an open house for advice, for anyone to use. It's just a matter of asking questions.
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.
I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.
in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.
People are always asking, 'Where does Michael Pennington end and Johnny Vegas begin,' and you're going, 'It's not like that: it's blurred right across.'
We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.
You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'
In God's vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.
As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.
Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.
You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.
I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.
When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?
During 'Anna Christie,' the biggest challenge I had was working with my daughter and sort of not stopping and asking an audience member for a camera to record the moment.
Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
As an American citizen, I'm not asking for any special treatment - the only thing I ask and want is to be treated just like an Illegal Alien.
I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.
If I had to choose, I would never take my shirt off again in a movie, but I guess that's not very realistic. I certainly won't be asking to do it, though.
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