H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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DisciplineTalentForwardYouKnow

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

Jeremy Jordan

CreativeMeSongSomeoneYouWant

If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you've always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.

Andreja Pejic

LoveWomanHappyBe HappySelfGrow

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

Maya Angelou

GodI AmKnowBeenGuidedAm

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

John Henrik Clarke

GodHopeFreedomUglyBelieveYou

For me, it's important to have a team and coach and manager that I know, and they know me, so they are not coming to me with everything.

Angelique Kerber

MeTeamKnowImportantManager

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Simon Armitage

MyselfPoliticsMovingDirection

Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.'

Robert Zubrin

TodayPoliticalNewGangMayBeen

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

Rutina Wesley

BetterYouFirstFilmGetYour

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Roland Allen

ReligionMoralityDutyOwnThrone

In a lot of ways, songwriting helped save my life.

Mary Gauthier

LifeMy LifeSongwritingSaveWays

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

Jay-Z

MoneyRichLifestylePoorComplain

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Diane Wakoski

PoetryMeVoiceNowPersonalAlways

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