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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Quote by M. Scott Peck about knowledge, experience, power

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece...

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

Quote by Harold Pinter about contentment, work

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way...

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about philosophy, art, magic

But when I go on a tour, it's too easy, too simple and I need a bigger challenge than that, like a thirty piece orchestra and the sets moving in an out, costumes.... a big show. I love that.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about need, love

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about bad luck, respect, thinking, bad

An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about silence, night

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

Quote by Jim Bakker about writing, time

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about absurd, music, woman, time, love, man

On that film and I Dreamed of Africa, I was able to submerge myself into the work and we were all there for the same reason: To try to do the best we can, do a great piece of work and not take it all so seriously.

Quote by Kim Basinger about work, reason, film

I'd have tears running from my eyes listening to the power of these operatic pieces, and the voices that committed themselves to being an instrument for the composers who created them.

Quote by Michael Bolton about tears, eyes, power, being

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about attitude, day

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll...

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

Quote by Armand Assante about work

If Don Giovanni does not possess low notes rich enough, ...

If Don Giovanni does not possess low notes rich enough, then the balance is broken, and, as a consequence, all the work that preceded falls to pieces.

Quote by Placido Domingo about consequences, wealth, work

I'm attracted to classical things, not fads. I'm sure everybody has a'70s photograph of himself with a velvet lapel and a wide tie. But I like pieces that have age to them.

Quote by Andy Garcia about age, olderness, things

Then I was at Darmstadt from 1954 onwards, and it was great. My first pieces were played straightaway. It was there that I met everybody who made up that generation that redefined post-War music.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, music

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about impossible

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

Quote by Larry Hagman about integrity

I am happy but a piece of me is still really sad. It runs...

I am happy but a piece of me is still really sad. It runs like from my shoulder across my breast, across my heart. I've had growing pains in my brain.

Quote by Geri Halliwell about brain, happiness, heart

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of...

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about film, life

If you're heart is broken, sweep up the pieces.

If you're heart is broken, sweep up the pieces.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, heart

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