#long

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#books #conceive #down #galileo #god

And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission? ↗

— John Spratt

#direction #emerged #era #every #finally

There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#depth #how #i #know #longevity

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #consistency #demands #getting #hard

Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#along #arise #because #dark #develops

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

#being #challenges #emotions #especially #film

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it. ↗

— Ralph Stanley

#deserve #enough #hope #i #legend