#ect

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#anything #as far as #big #big fan #billy

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. ↗

— Yousef Munayyer

#fear #great #hatred #humility #just

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#bali #because #connected #constant #dreamed

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#chaplin #did #direct #exactly #film

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#arises #aspect #ignorance #individualized #limited

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#please #reader #subjects #task

The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#positive-thinking #life

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#brain #conjecture #consciousness #darwinism #evolution

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#intellectual #mythology #norse #life

Man is an end in himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life #objectivism #philosophy #success #life