Peter Weir Quotes

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • History
  • Culture

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Great
  • Too Much
  • Then

• The trouble with records is that they're too short.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Trouble
  • Records
  • Short

• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Failure

• Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Competitive
  • Compete

• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Inspiration
  • Moment
  • Talk

• 'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • God
  • Book
  • Dark

• I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • High
  • Intensity

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Me

• I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

  

  J. Cole
  • Heart
  • Feel
  • Path

• When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

  

  Martin Millar
  • Good

• Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

  

  Emanuel Cleaver
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Frustration

• To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

  

  Norman O. Brown
  • Ambition
  • Remembered
  • Seen

• I grew up attending a Conservative day school, Solomon Schechter, until I was about 14, and going to a Reconstructionist synagogue.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Conservative
  • Grew Up
  • Synagogue

• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Victory

• You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

  

  Peter Weir