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Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

Matt Groening

Life

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Carlo Goldoni

Wishes

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Destiny

Order

Wishes

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fact

Wishes

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man

Wishes

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Edward Gibbon

Income

Wishes

Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Mohandas Gandhi

God

Wishes

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Benjamin Franklin

Man

Wishes

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.