James Arthur Quotes
Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.
You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!
God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.
Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.
The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.
Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why
To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.
The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.
The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.
The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.
Every great teacher who has ever walked the planet has told you that life was meant to be abundant.
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.
True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.
For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.
Here's the question I would ask you to consider; do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?
I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.
Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?
As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.
The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.
Buried deep within each of us is a spark of greatness, a spark than can be fanned into flames of passion and achievement. That spark is not outside of you it is born deep within you.
All results no matter how magnificent are infinitesimal when compared to future possibility.
Money won't ever make you happy, nor was it ever meant to. Happiness comes from within. Money at best will make you more comfortable.
Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.
I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.
In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.
I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.
I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.
William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion.
When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.
I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader.
For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.
Whenever I visit my family in Canada, I remind myself that what many Americans would consider forthright, many Canadians would consider overbearing.
