Maxwell Maltz Quotes
There is within each of us a 'life-instinct,' which is forever working toward health, happiness, and all that makes for more life for the individual.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don't want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
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There is within each of us a 'life-instinct,' which is forever working toward health, happiness, and all that makes for more life for the individual.
