"The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention."

-- Brian Henson

#Challenges Quotes #Mind Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I spend a few minutes in meditation and prayer each morning. I find that this really helps me to start the day with a good frame of reference. As part of my prayers, I thank whoever is helping me - I'm sure that somebody or something is - I express gratitude for all my blessings and try to forgive the people that I'm feeling negative toward. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems.”

Source : Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
“I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.”
“I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.”

Source : "Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.
“People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.”
“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”
“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”
“It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.”
“What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.”

Source : Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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