Ernest Holmes Quotes

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Ernest Holmes

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Job
  • Learned
  • Experiences

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Act
  • Constitution

• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Parents
  • Powerful
  • Influence

• Once we can see how this question of freedom of the will has been vitiated by post-romantic philosophy, with its inbuilt tendency to laziness and boredom, we can also see how it came about that existentialism found itself in a hole of it’s own digging, and how the philosophical developments since then have amounted to walking in circles round that hole.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Question
  • Walking

• All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Writing
  • Kids

• All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Memories

• I love novelty workout pants. It means my workout kit is really bright and vibrant and out there.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Workout

• It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Business
  • Discipline

• Over the course of history, governments, political regimes, and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest.

  

  James Carville
  • Done
  • History
  • Political

• Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

  

  Ben Bass
  • Character

• If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Band

• Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Community
  • City
  • Paris

• I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dad

• Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Remember

• SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Moment

• It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Faith
  • Action
  • Jesus

• I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Practice

• To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Practice
  • Inaction