Mood Quotes - Page 15

• When (Big) Walter was in the right mood, he could be the most ferocious, the most inventive, the most dangerous harp player I ever heard.

  Charlie Musselwhite

  Player, Harps, Bigs

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• The Psalms are much more than poetry. Many of them bear the title, Maskil, or teaching psalm. They are thus intended to instruct the mind as well as to encourage the heart. They are designed not only to reflect a mood, but to show us also how to handle that mood; how to escape from depression or how to balance exaltation with wisdom.

  Ray Stedman

  Teaching, Heart, Mind

  Ray C. Stedman (1973). “Folk Psalms of Faith”, Regal Books

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• I feel bad about that, that I worship celebrities... but their moods create weather.

  Maria Bamford

  Weather, Worship, Feels

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• The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

  Maya Angelou

  People, Together, Nouns

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• Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

  Harvey Mackay

  Attitude, Laughter, Heart

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• I'm not militant about anything. If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some. If I'm in the mood for something, I'll have it. I don't obsess about anything. I could have three or four "cheat days" in a week and then not have dessert for another three months.

  Kelly Ripa

  House, Three, Four

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between the actors and the director. I think the director needs to really paint his or her vision to the cast and let them know the kind of mood that he or she is making. I think that's very important.

  James Wan

  Communication, Thinking, Vision

  "Interview: James Wan, Leigh Whannell Talk ‘Insidious’ & Classic Horror". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. March 13, 2011.

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• The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Misery, Things To Do, Best Things

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.229, Random House

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• We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.5, Pearson Education

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• ... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

  Paulo Coelho

  Powerful, Technology, Waiting

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• My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

  Pema Chodron

  Weather, Shifting

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.

  Rob Brezsny

  Reality, Hallucinations, Good Mood

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.185, Frog Books

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• Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural.  So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy.  This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression--this is the Mystery of its evolution.

  Arnold Mindell

  Night, Light, Break Through

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• One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by little you must create a fog around yourself; you must erase everything around you until nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now is that you're too real. Your endeavors are too real, your moods are too real. Don't take things so for granted. You must begin to erase yourself.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Drinking, Taken

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• Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Horse, Should, Foul

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• We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Artist, Self, Hands

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• Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Spring, Bravery, Bud

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.22, Trinity University Press

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• I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

  Terry Richardson

  Light, Emotion, Angle

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• I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

  Guy Pearce

  Moving, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I just adored Peter Medak, the director. He's such a character, but he was so much fun. Some directors come in and they truly get angry about things.Peter was still in a fantastic mood. He's a delightful person. He threw a big party at the end of the pilot, which was so sweet. And his wife is an opera singer. He's just a very warm, crazy beautiful individual.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Beautiful, Sweet, Fun

  Source: collider.com

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• Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Patience, Spring, Decisions You Make

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  Zane Grey

  Salvation

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• The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.

  Hans Hofmann

  Mean, Giving, Landscape

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Excerpts from the Teaching of Hans Hofmann", p. 68, 1948.

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• How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Long, Retrospect

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• Ask for the sale when the mood is right. The worst possible place is in the prospects' office. Best place is a business breakfast, lunch or dinner. Next best is your office. Next best is a trade show. Ask early, and ask often.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Lunch, Office, Breakfast

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