One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you’re more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you’re not as precious with it. You feel like, ‘This is going to land, and I’m going to be supported in this.’
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring – redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
I’m old-school English, so I suppose I’m quite protective – especially of time. Now that I’m a father, every moment is precious.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
My iPhone has become rather precious because of all my music on it; every night, we set it for 20 minutes before we fall asleep to listen to some Mozart.
Democracy is a precious thing and the rights of parliament are a precious thing.
I don’t trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?
There are very few things in this world more powerful, or precious, than a mother’s love for her child.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
And I think the first LP was perhaps too precious. It was our life’s work up to that point; there was so much pain in trying to make the perfect statement. We couldn’t relax and I think most people missed what we were trying to say.
When you’re in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it’s around us, it’s in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we’re going to live forever, which we’re not.
It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.
Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
I’m a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
I’m an equal-opportunity critic when it comes to left-wing celebrities sounding off on topics of which they know precious little.
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I’d grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn’t want to be friends with.
My mala beads are very precious to me. A yoga teacher and friend named Leslie made them for me with love and intention. They are very grounding, and I love them.
One shouldn’t gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.
When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious.
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
You tend to be more attentive when you shoot on film because, you know, it costs more, and everybody needs to be focused when you’re filming something. Everybody considers it something valuable and precious, so everybody’s focused.
Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.
All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
When you meet a head of state, and you say, ‘What is your most precious natural resource?’ they will not say children at first, and then when you say, ‘children,’ they will pretty quickly agree with you.
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don’t even really need.
As a precious metal, silver is also money.
I could have easily never worked again after ‘Precious.’ I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I’m having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
Life is precious.
The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good… but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
I’ve been at Chelsea five years and been the butt of many jokes. And I give it back sometimes. That is the beauty of team spirit in a healthy dressing room. I’m not a sensitive, precious person.
In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
I remember Michael saying, ‘Rich and famous? It’s much better to be just rich’. I didn’t quite get it to begin with. But he’s right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you’ve no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
I could’ve shot the whole East Village, because it was and is my neighborhood. But Seventh Street is precious to me.
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that’s a good grounding for a balanced life.
I’m controlling over anything I create. I’m very precious about it.
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don’t own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
My years on ‘Family Matters’ were precious to me. During the run of the show, I saw many births, deaths, weddings… The actual family on the show became my family.
You’ve gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
That’s the gift ‘Precious’ has given me. You really think you’re telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we’re all Precious.
Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he’s growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I’d do anything to protect him.
None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
Every hour of useful work is precious.
I used to like taking pictures. I wanted to capture precious moments and make them mine. I wanted to hang on to everything that might someday become a fond memory.
I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to protect their precious wildlife.
Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute – you know, very precious – but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.
I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God’s forgiveness.
