Motivational Quotes - Page 268

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.

Believe in your potential, not your past.

It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.