#v

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#equally #french #friend #gestapo #i

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#change #human #human behavior #human personality #image

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#act #bet #bring #calculated #calculated risk

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#act #behavior #conscious #conscious decision #decision

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface. ↗

— David Mamet

#altogether #appear #bad #bad thing #believed

I won't ever do e-mail. ↗

— David Mamet

#ever #i #won

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way. ↗

— Melissa Manchester

#connect #despair #doing #figure #find

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. ↗

— William Manchester

#boudoir #could #forth #guessed #her

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#country #every #grows #hollywood #nations