#rage

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. ↗

— Paul Harris

#average #being #critical #disposition #else

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#because #better #charge #did #director

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

#between #brains #brilliant #creative #difference

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#writers #writing #love

If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#courage #final #hell #how #i

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#conformity #cowardice #dead #even #fish

take what you can from your dreams Make them real as anything It takes the work out of the courage ↗

— Dave Matthews Band

#courage

I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.... I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love #nightmares #waiting #courage