I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
The biggest thing I tell the boys is control the heartbeat. It’s hard to do, but we’ve gotta be able to control the heartbeat in big moments because it goes really quick. So just stay in that moment and focus on the moment, don’t get ahead of yourselves, and just play the game that we’ve been playing all year.
Don’t squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it’s better to watch things as they happen with your own eyes, knowing that the memory of the experience will always be with you.
I think as a young person, leaving high school or college, you’re like, ‘All right, all right, enough already.’ But now there’s a part of me that would like to go back and relish those moments when you could sit down and just… read a book.
I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I’m just being really tough on myself.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there’s no audience.
One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
Jesu’s walls of distortion are uplifting in comparison to those of its doom-driven contemporaries. The band’s 2009 album ‘Infinity’ has its bleak moments, but that album’s single 49-minute song resolves into something inspirational and grandiose by the time it’s over.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.
There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That’s where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don’t really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
Failure is enriching. It’s also important to accept that you’ll make mistakes – it’s how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life’s negative moments.
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I’m probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you’ve climbed Mount Everest.
Because ‘Gob’ was a terrible magician, he was always, in great comedic moments, messing up his magic act. We used to have magicians come in to work on these tricks to actually get them wrong. But they still had to work. We had to bring magicians on to make magic not work.
I played over 130 matches, including four finals, so there have been many great moments.
One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.
No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.
I got to see the first step, hear the first word. Most people – and certainly working moms – are not able to do that. I wanted to appreciate the fact that I had worked so hard all my life to be able to have those moments.
What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Periods of inactivity, I don’t know such things. I’m consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
Being a mom’s so empowering and incredible. I’m one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that’s where the best moments come from.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
When you’re doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it’s a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche.
I’m an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that’s happening and I want to cry. I’m doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time – and it’s amazing. A lot of people don’t get to do that.
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too.
There have been moments when I was physically strained, but I have overcome the hardships by staging performances and receiving support from our members and fans.
It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn’t said – to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors’ faces without dialogue.
I believe it’s so important to love life, enjoy it for its small moments and live without regrets – life is so unpredictable.
The exciting part of acting, I don’t know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
When people embrace character, there’s latzie. It’s the stuffing of a scene that’s not written. It’s not in the stage direction and it’s not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
I’m a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but there have definitely been moments where I’m like, ‘You know what? I need to upgrade a little bit.’ I’ve tried to snazz things up as much as I can, with me being as lazy as I am.
There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn’t insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn’t call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, ‘O.K., I literally have nothing right now.’
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours – and, if you’re really lucky, full days – where everything feels just right.
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I’m cured. It’s a very inconsistent personality trait.
Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.
I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I’m in my head so much, and I’m thinking so much, I’m playing a tug-of-war within my mind.
There are moments in our lives that are more difficult than others. And I can look at each song and remember where I was during those times – from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows.
You just make sure you don’t screw it up. It’s going to work as long as you don’t mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I’ll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
