Important Quotes - Page 104

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243)

I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life.

Now thyself is more important than “Know thyself.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

Not everything needs changing. Some things need protecting. And that can be just as important, challenging and rewarding as changing the world.

Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.

The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

I think it's important to find someone that you really like as well as love. When the infatuation runs out, the first phase of the relationship changes. You really have to be able to say 'I like to hang out with you. Let's keep hanging out.'

The most important thing is the script.

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time.

But a hobby, like a habit, makes you forget about important things in life.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.