Leading Me Quotes - Page 5

• The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Struggle, Mean, Careers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

  Dave Hickey

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Yield, Light

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• I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Sound, Logic

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• I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

  Dolly Parton

  Support, Waiting, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

  Albert Einstein

  Garden, Ideas, Light

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• Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Squares, Trying

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• I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.

  Jason Mraz

  Jobs, One Day At A Time, Steps

  Interview with Lexi Shapiro, theywillrockyou.com. April 23, 2008.

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• I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

  Graham Phillips

  Careers, Done, Theater

  Source: collider.com

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• I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it.

  Robert Longo

  Attention, Addresses, Want

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Mom, Running, Jobs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• This is a dream come true. HBO is the highest echelon in the world for a stand-up comedian to attain. Throughout my career I've trusted my instincts to lead me down the right path, and I am honored to work together with this network while contributing to the legacy that is HBO.

  Dane Cook

  Dream, Careers, Hbo

  "Dane Cook Signs Big HBO Deal" by Brian B., movieweb.com. March 02, 2006.

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• It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.

  Todd Farmer

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

  Source: collider.com

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• Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'

  Roy Peter Clark

  Mean, Writing, Careers

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• I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's really funny. With this book, since I'm opening it at random and immediately interested, I don't feel the need to read more than I want to read, in that there's not, like, a plot that leads me along. So I can stop whenever.

  Tao Lin

  Book, Plot, Needs

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• I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.

  Gene Black

  Book, Believe, Discovery

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• Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

  John Henry Newman

  Art, Giving, Information

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• I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

  Noma Bar

  Opposites, Icons, Sketching

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

  Michel Gondry

  Confused, Inspiration, Creativity

  "Director Michel Gondry Talks IS THE MAN WHO IS TALL HAPPY?, His Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Using Hand-Drawn Illustrations, and UBIK Adaptation". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

  Philip Greenspun

  Buddhist, Roots, Suffering

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• I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal.

  Scott Aukerman

  Art, Thinking, Tv Shows

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• The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Giving, Soul

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• When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

  Dov Davidoff

  Believe, Son, Rapper

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• Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.

  Justine Kurland

  Photography, Adventure, Desire

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• So may I, blind fortune leading me,
  Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
  And die with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Missing, Risk

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

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