Quotes About Journey

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

When I think about the fact that I get to work with stars like Will Ferrell or Kurt Russell my eyes fill with tears of joy and appreciation. I hope the ride keeps going.

I'm Mrs. Steve Irwin. I've got a lot to live up to.

There is only one Steve Perry, and I am a fan.

I think that Steve Perry will always be known as the singer of Journey. I have so much respect for him.

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.

I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself.

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.