Elizabeth Thornton Quotes

The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.

Elizabeth Thornton

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Culture
  • Alone
  • Thought

• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Different
  • You
  • Kind

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Illusions
  • Drop
  • Luggage

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Know

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Live
  • Past
  • Walk

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Limits
  • Riches
  • Principal

• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• We're involved in a very large study that's federally funded and being done with Kaiser Permanente, and saliva is a very non-invasive way to get cells from the body.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Done
  • Study

• And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Perfect

• One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hero

• The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words 'All Men' exclude a vast number of citizens.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Men
  • American
  • Words

• The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the old model and respond differently based on the new model. Each time you are able to do this, you are actually loosening the old circuit and creating new neural connections in your brain, often referred to as self-directed neuroplasticity.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Model