“I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
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Wise Quotes — page 81 of 916
“As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.”
“Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it”
“There are guys I admire. Like Jimmy Stewart and - a more modern example - Tom Hanks. They managed to do it and have a really high standard for their work, but at the same time they remained incredibly classy and well-regarded personally throughout the process, which I thought was rare and kind of cool. And I'm trying. I try. I haven't thrown any TVs out the hotel window yet.”
“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.”
“With sociology one can do anything and call it work”
“To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.”
“The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.”
“Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.”
“How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.”
“The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.”
“Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.”
“A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.”
“Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.”
“The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.”
“Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.”
“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”
“Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.”