#takes

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#make #music #selfish #takes #time

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#alike #coercion #find #fruitless #itself

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#army #ball games #banners #despair #field

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#both #good #lot #perform #takes

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#any #become #boy #i #just

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#crystallize #different #economy #environment #granted

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. ↗

— David Talbot

#blessing #dollars #duke #kept #lot

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#experience #into #just #kind #novel

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions. ↗

— James Taylor

#back #down #emotions #energy #experience

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. ↗

— Susan Taylor

#crisis #encourage #faith #growth #nourish