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Using one's gifts
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It is good to know one's gifts and to use them:
"Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being
a good friend."
-- Marian Anderson, US singer
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe
that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be
attained."
-- Marie Curie, Polish-French chemist
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter
fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go
together."
-- Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, poet
"When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence
should one require beyond the right to exercise them?"
-- W. H. Auden, English-US poet, dramatist, editor
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Creativity and Destruction
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"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of
destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
-- Walter Lippmann, US journalist, editor, author
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
-- Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor
"Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an
understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation,
death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as
meaningless mayhem alone."
-- Marion Woodman, Canadian analyst, writer
"All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole
world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on
the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover."
-- Lenny Bruce, US comedian, satirist, author
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Creating Cinema
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Thoughts on defining filmmaking as an art form:
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the
way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the
dark rooms of our souls."
-- Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and stage director, writer
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by
the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film
but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to
life again like flowers in water."
-- Robert Bresson, French film director
"Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a
second."
-- Jean-Luc Godard, French director
"The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something
between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema
both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this
concept in my films."
-- Jean-Luc Godard, French director
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Belief
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On the power of belief:
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief
in a thing makes it happen."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your
belief will help create the fact."
-- Henry James, author
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Charm
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On the power of charm:
"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need
today is charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you
want to, I'll develop my radio personality."
-- Gracie Allen, US comedienne, in "How to Become
President"
"Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
-- Albert Camus, French philosopher, novelist, dramatist
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Defeat
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Learning to live with defeat is important to building one's inner
strength.
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without
losing heart."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, US lawyer, orator
"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or
defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."
-- Anne Byrhhe, US educator
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, US author
"If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race
of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started."
-- Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader
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Decision Making & Indecision
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It is good to behave decisively; life is built out of a million small
but definite decisions:
"We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for
circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to
live."
-- Omar Bradley, US army general
"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise,
why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their
misfortune?"
-- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born novelist, dramatist, and essayist
"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."
-- George Canning, English statesman
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
Destiny is made known silently."
-- Agnes George DeMille, US dancer, choreographer
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US philosopher, poet, essayist
"Don't stand too close to a naked man!"
~ Tim Allen
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
~ Mariah Carey
Its not the size of the boat that counts, its the motion of the ocean
~ Amy Grauer
God made man before woman because God always makes a rough draft before perfection.
~ Amy Grauer
"Oh, my wife can spend money. I mean, who tips at a tollbooth? Now she tells me she wants plastic surgery. She got plastic surgery- I cut up her credit cards."
~ Rodney Dangerfield
"When I die, I want you to bury me upside down, so the whole world can kiss my ass."
~ Gravestone
Norm Peterson Quotes from Cheers:
"Hey Norm, how's the world been treating you?"
"Like a baby treats a diaper."
"Hey Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you."
"I know, if she calls, I'm not here."
"Whatcha up to Norm?"
"My ideal weight if I were 11 feet tall."
"How's life treating you Norm?"
"Like it caught me sleeping with its wife."
"Can I pour you a beer Mr. Peterson?"
"A little early isn't it, Woody?"
"For a beer?"
"No, for stupid questions."
Life is like a trumpet. If you dont put anything into it, you dont get anything out.
~ W.C. Handy (1873-1958)
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you do criticize that person, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
~ Unknown
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times."
~ Mark Twain
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
~ Mark Twain
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Blind Love
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Love in its initial stages blurs one's perception of reality, for
better or worse.
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she
loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
-- Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
-- H. Jackson Brown Jr., author of "Live and Learn and Pass It
On"
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking
together in the same direction."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer and aviator
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