Dennis Potter Quotes

Everything we do has consequences.

Dennis Potter

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• I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Feel
  • Very
  • Been

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Sometimes

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Problem
  • Down
  • Poor

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Singing
  • See

• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Feeling
  • Matter

• Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Good
  • First
  • Good Deal

• I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Like
  • Doing
  • Guts

• My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Good
  • Lost

• It is less important, I believe, where you start. It is more important how and what you learn. If the quality of the learning is high, the development gradient is steep, and, given time, you can find yourself in a previously unattainable place.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Important

• Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any high degree; only about as much as is used in the lower kinds of poetry.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Mind
  • High

• Who was the role model, the living example of what the est Training could do? Who else but Werner Erhard, a man some of his employees say, thought of himself, as god.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • God
  • Training
  • Model

• There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Lost

• It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Mistake

• I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.

  

  Larry Wall

• I actually really wish I had written 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying' as an unreliably narrated novel that is also a self-help book.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Life
  • Book
  • Help

• Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

  

  Andrew Shue
  • Money
  • View
  • Impact

• I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Loathe
  • Self-portraits
  • Own Face

• Everything we do has consequences.

  

  Dennis Potter