#lightening

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. ↗

— Steve Albini

#before #blindfolded #enlightening #know #more

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#actor #always #am #attach #central

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#attaining #clouds #enlightening #great #held

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#express #externals #fashion #lightening #lumber

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Lesser

#enlightening #life #transition #change

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ↗

— Barack Obama

#before #cutting #deficit #education #engine

The most important prophet in any age for the people of that age is the living prophet. ↗

— Joseph Smith

#age

Just last year I couldn't even get a date, and then this year… it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#change

Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #love #transcendence