#restless

Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song. ↗

— Gus Van Sant Restless

#beauty

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#failure #first #i #man #me

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#ability #artistic #both #burning #eat

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#closet #makes #restless #skeleton #something

I don't feel restless, I just like to travel. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#i #just #like #restless #travel

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

#creative #creative process #doing #i #never

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#had #heart #hearts #i #just

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#fleeting #get #i #i always #little

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#attacks #bad #been #before #business

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#others #restlessness #slaves #some #their