#finding

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#back #book #does #else #family

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

#adamant #allowing #also #anybody #because

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#any #bad #could #did #elder

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#always #beauty #being #being responsible #believer

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being. ↗

— John Glover

#am #because #being #depth #different

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed. ↗

— Rube Goldberg

#care #did #earth #finding #how

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. ↗

— Philip Green

#about #balance #between #family #finding

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#come #confidence #consumed #deep #deep down

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen in paintings rather than from my own observation...and I started to feel this was a real lack in my work. Everything was too generalised, and not based on real experience. Then in 1975, after having worked for some years in London as a book cover illustrator mainly, I came down to Devon and stayed with some friends up on the moor. In the course of this one weekend, wandering around the moor, finding rivers and ancient woods, I realised that everything that I would ever want to draw was actually here. There was so much richness in the texture and forms of these fantastic trees...and I decided in the course of that weekend to come and live here. I looked at a couple of houses, found one, and made an offer on it, all in that one weekend! ↗

— Alan Lee

#finding-path #influences #nature #experience

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#before #chance #die #finding #how