Edmund Spenser Quotes

New York will make you feel small. I think that's good. At least, it's good for me.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you're not the centre of it no more. You understand that you're a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

With time, the one thing that I have learnt is, never taking the opportunity for granted.

We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others.

I remind myself to be grateful and remember where I came from.

I find that I love so much stuff and respect so many people who work in this industry and music in general. I've kind of learned that I've got to just stick to what I can do and try and do that really.

I will be small in small things, great among great.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There are several things that keep me grounded and focused... When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift.'

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

I like the financial security because I know how hard it is for so many people who struggle to earn a living. I'm grateful I don't have to worry about money and I can live very freely and do something I love and get paid very well to do it. I tell my friends to slap me if they ever think I'm getting full of myself.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.