Quotes About Journey

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

I always believe that the most important part of a journey is the journey itself.

Growing up, I never imagined my journey would pan out as it has, but the one thing I always knew was that I believed in myself.

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.

When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter for the local stories for NPR. Then I was a country-western DJ. I did data entry for a yearbook company. In my mid-20s I went back to grad school at NYU, and I specialized in playwriting.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Theater is such its own living, breathing animal. You do a show every night, but it's different every night. Being on stage, you're experiencing a journey.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I think I'm always running away from somewhere, and to me, theatre's always felt like a good place to run away to.

Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.

'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple.

Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is an exploration of that theme... I reread it every year... That's not as surprising as it sounds, because it's a rip-roaring book.

Loneliness is definitely a theme running through the show, but I think there's hope in it also. Loki and Sylvie find each other, and there's hope in that for them.