#own

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#always #behaviour #beliefs #changing #feelings

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?' ↗

— David Mamet

#experience #i #know #life #life experience

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #comes #does #down #drama

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

#agent #both #degree #his #historian

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#basically #childhood #children #down #funny

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#make #own #people #persuade #their

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#directly #europe #needs #our #own

I would exchange everything for one child of my own. ↗

— Henrietta Szold

#everything #exchange #i #my own #own

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#enough #feel #had #largely #last