Age Quotes - Page 82

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs by-everyone else: a "tragedy of the commons" is created.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial interest.

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...