Top 75 James Arthur Sayings
#1. In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
Harpo Marx
#2. Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
James Arthur Ray
#3. Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.
James Arthur
#4. Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
James Arthur Ray
#5. A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all is experienced as an opportunity and a privilege to venture and grow.
James Arthur Ray
#6. Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.
James Arthur Ray
#7. I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.
James Arthur
#8. It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.
James Arthur
#9. I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.
James Arthur
#10. My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.
James Arthur
#11. I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.
James Arthur
#12. In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.
James Arthur
#13. When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.
James Arthur Ray
#14. Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.
James Arthur
#15. Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.
James Arthur Ray
#16. I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.
James Arthur
#17. Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.
James Merrill
#18. When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.
James Arthur
#19. Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.
Bertrand Russell
#20. This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that's a great state of love that's going to bring goodness into your life, what a gift that is.
James Arthur Ray
#21. Money won't ever make you happy, nor was it ever meant to. Happiness comes from within. Money at best will make you more comfortable.
James Arthur Ray
#23. It's easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you're making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don't yet see the light.
James Arthur Ray
#24. Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.
James Arthur Ray
#25. All results no matter how magnificent are infinitesimal when compared to future possibility.
James Arthur Ray
#26. The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.
James Arthur Ray
#27. Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?
James Arthur
#28. In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.
Bradley James
#29. For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.
James Arthur
#30. As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.
Bradley James
#31. The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#32. God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.
James Arthur Ray
#33. When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.
James Arthur
#35. The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.
James Arthur Ray
#36. Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.
James Arthur Ray
#37. I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.
James Arthur
#38. Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
James Arthur Ray
#39. There is no happiness if the things you believe are different than the things you do.
James Arthur Ray
#40. If art doesn't require an audience, can an intimate conversation be a work of art? Can a thought be a work of art? Maybe. I don't know. These questions are completely hypothetical for me, because I love interacting with audiences. I want my poems to be heard.
James Arthur
#41. As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.
James Arthur
#42. Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes
James Arthur
#43. I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
Rupert Graves
#44. And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
James Earl Jones
#45. When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.
James Arthur
#46. Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why
James Arthur Ray
#47. Live in constant gratitude. No matter what the condition today, no matter how dark, how dreary, how painful and difficult ... to day is merely the passing outcome of yesterday's nonsense. How you feel today, and what you give your attention to, builds tomorrow.
James Arthur Ray
#48. The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.
James Arthur Ray
#49. True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.
James Arthur Ray
#51. He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?
James Arthur Ray
#52. It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.
James Arthur
#53. The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.
James Arthur Ray
#54. If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?
James Arthur
#55. There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion.
James Arthur Ray
#56. The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.
James Arthur Ray
#57. Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.
James Arthur
#60. Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
Arthur James Balfour
#61. The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.
James Arthur Ray
#62. The Warrior lives a life full of adventure, living on the edge of opportunity. Life on the edge keeps him in a space of heightened awareness and totally in the moment; therefore no matter what comes his way he is always prepared.
James Arthur Ray
#63. Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.
Arthur James Moore
#64. For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.
James Arthur
#65. Because of the nature of King Arthur and the resonance he has, not only with within the U.K., but right around the world, I have found it a huge honour to play the part. I will look back on it very fondly and be very proud to have been King Arthur when I finally hang up the chain mail!
Bradley James
#66. Animals are wonderful, because they put you in a great emotional state.
James Arthur Ray
#67. The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.
James Arthur Ray
#68. Here's the question I would ask you to consider; do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?
James Arthur Ray
#69. Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and move directly into writing. I guess my favorite poems contain a mixture of intuitive and analytical thought.
James Arthur
#70. I like poems that immediately claim my attention, instead of taking my attention for granted. At first read, I want to feel compelled to pick up the poem again; I want to be curious about its byways and secret corners.
James Arthur
#71. It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ... what am I grateful for ... and I'm not just thinking about them ... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude
James Arthur Ray
#72. In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.
James Arthur Ray
#73. To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.
James Arthur Ray
#74. My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.
James Arthur
#75. Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
James Arthur Ray
