Brian Eno Quotes
A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
-
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
-
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
-
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
-
For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
-
I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
-
Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
-
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
-
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
-
I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
-
Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
-
While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
-
There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
-
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
-
There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.
-
I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.
-
In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
-
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
-
A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.
