Montano Quotes

#1. The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else's suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.

Christian Wiman

#2. The battle for the lead between faith and reason can be settled by accepting the guiding hand of an experienced navigator.

Elaine Orabona Foster

#3. In the early '70s [the late] Ras Shorty and I took Indian dholak drumming [from chutney music, another Indo-Trinidadian creation], fused it with calypso's African rhythms, and soca was born against the wishes of the purists.

Machel Montano

#4. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.

Louise Hay

#5. The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Philip Caldwell

#6. I'm not a Christian for your benefit. I'm a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.

John Schneider

#7. Hire people who intimidate you.

Machel Montano

#8. I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Anna Kendrick

#9. I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Herb Ritts

#10. I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

Raymond Pettibon

#11. Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Ned Rorem

#12. I want to touch your boob any time I see you and talk to you. It doesn't matter the topic of conversation." I

Tijan

#13. night. A pretty figure you'd cut if you had your way! And after I've gone and bought you this nice new pail and filled it especial to start on!" Elnora came

Gene Stratton-Porter

#14. Expectations hinder you from being prepared for the unexpected

Pen