#knowing

Character is just an invention.... It is the self-fulfilling prophecy that guides our lives... and the longer we live with it the more boxed in we are by the rapidly diminishing variedness of our imagined selves. What we can't ever accept is that we might never know who we are. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie from Broken Verses

#knowing-oneself #imagination

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.' ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #better #career #comes #control

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? ↗

— Rocky Marciano

#better #champion #city #could #down

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#comes #consciousness #knowing #like #others

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community. ↗

— Richard Masur

#after-school #any #characters #community #connection

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#agree #god #knowing #live #lives

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#any #because #enough #every #every time

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#gift #giving #kind #knowing #knowledge

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#day #every #every day #fail #getting