“From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 97 of 303
“You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.”
“I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.”
“You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.”
“The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.”
“The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast.”
“Usually, whatever's in front of me is what I'm focused on and it's 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.”
“It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.”
“People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.”
“Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.”
“Innocence is its own defense.”
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”
“The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity”
“Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.”
“My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.”
“It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
“If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again”
“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”
“Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, “What kind of legacy will you leave?”
“If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'”