#view

A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being. ↗

— James W. Sire

#ideology #narrative #philosophy #presupposition #reality

Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#belief #god #interview #knowledge #religion

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#literary-criticism #literary-criticism

Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand," Marron said quietly. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#ideals #wisdom #wisdom-quote

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ↗

— Maude Adams

#changed #give #i #interview #interviews

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #complaints #enough #first #going

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#believe #believing #both #done #fact

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fifty #his #life #man #same

When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story. ↗

— Gary Allan

#became #because #doing #everybody #i

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view. ↗

— Michael Arad

#i #little #long #longer #measured