#vic

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#conviction #could #dream #i #life

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#degree #desires #devastating #forever #lose

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#blessed #far #give #more #receive

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#act #acting #advice #ass #believe

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#ask #i #myself #slump

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#advice #art #being #being happy #best

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#extreme #get #i #intense #kind

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#believe #create #deeds #devils #evil

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. ↗

— Tacitus

#chance #cowards #fall #hands #often