Quotes About Guidance

I hold my teachers, beginning with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, so dear to me because of how they've been able to show me—and model for me—my own potential. It's like meeting a part of yourself that you didn't even know was there.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Be respectful of your Sensei.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

We rappers are role models.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

When it comes to training I do that through teaching.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.