#ourself

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#becomes #capturing #dance #easy #essence

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#because #courage #i #i think #just

You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#change #come #done #draft #else

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#challenge #compare #every #every time #nothing

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

#get #how #intensely #into #notion

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#argument #feel #height #mass #raise

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#again #because #constant #control #easy

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge. ↗

— Judith Light

#find #judge #model #others #patience

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#boot #enough #hard #just #long

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consult #doing #effectually #help #help others