“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
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Wise Quotes — page 52 of 916
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”
“Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.”
“To be understanding is more important than to be right.”
“You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.”
“it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.”
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”
“Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.”
“True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.”
“When you let go of what you are, you become what you might be.”
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.”
“I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together.”
“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”