"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."

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"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."

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"You create your world with your thoughts."

Rhonda Byrne, Australian Author

Power, Thought, Creation, Mind

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

Edward Gibbon, English Historian

Power,

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Self-Confidence, Strength, Mind

"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Power, Enemy, Fame, Deed, Light

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Fear, Courage, Caution

"You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Power, Enemy, Fear, Truth

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Power, Wisdom, Purpose, Strength

"The mind of a man!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Mind, Man, Thought

"Strength is wealth."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Strength, Wealth, Values

"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

George Orwell, British Author

Power, Equality, Insanity, Control

Explore more quotes by Julie Taymor

"We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now."

Writing

"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art."

Art

"When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality."

Reality

"Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry."

Poetry

"And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story."

People

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

Challenge

"But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame."

Movies

"It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous."

People

"I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus."

People

"Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia."

Travel