#elf

I now see that cultivating a Wholehearted life is not like trying to reach a destination. It’s like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really arrive, but we certainly know that we’re heading in the right direction. ↗

— Brene Brown

#wholehearted #life

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#because #cool #critical #everybody #film

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it. ↗

— Mary Renault

#audience #believe #make #nearly #see

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#i #into #literally #myself #put

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character. ↗

— Ving Rhames

#approach #autobiography #character #character actor #consider

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#day #end #end of the day #face #man

I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies. ↗

— Omega Maverick

#inspirational #self-confidence #words-to-live-by #inspirational

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#ahead #another #best #best work #done

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#belief #confidence #failure #self-confidence #success