Richard Twiss Quotes

#1. If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Otis Redding

#2. When you're a teacher, you realize that you have to clearly encapsulate some unrelated technical ideas that you take for granted and understand and put them into words so someone else will understand them.

Joe Satriani

#3. Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

David Hackworth

#4. You can't have unity without diversity.

Richard Twiss

#5. But the man who is not puffed up in good times does not collapse either when they change.

Seneca.

#6. I don't want to be able to see the audience.

Bobby Darin

#7. My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

Madonna Ciccone

#8. Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

Maggie Smith

#9. How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?

Richard Twiss

#10. Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.

Tom Odell

#11. How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue ... and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

Rita Rudner

#12. Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether

Theodore Sturgeon

#13. Entitlement is: The man who thinks he is above all the rules. The woman who feels mistreated and needs others to make it up to her.

John Townsend

#14. I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

Italo Calvino

#15. The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.

Richard Twiss

#16. Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life.

Vince Staples

#17. I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

Eve Bunting

#18. I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

Ray Dalio