Errol Morris Quotes

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

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• Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Genius
  • Foundation
  • Human Life

• The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Environment
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Understanding
  • Hearts
  • Crucified

• Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Be Happy

• For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Resolutions

• The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition

  

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Useless
  • United Nations
  • Harmful

• Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume talks, but, they cancelled it. They had thought that Iran would no longer resume talks with them.

  

  Ali Larijani
  • Dialogue
  • European
  • Resume

• Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

  

  A. J. Jacobs

• The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the origin of homosexuality, no serious scientist today suggests that a simple cause-effect relationship applies.

  

  William Masters
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Serious

• The good is the enemy of the best.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Enemy

• The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Light
  • Childhood
  • Scandinavia

• The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Choice

• Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Politics
  • Adventure
  • Emerge

• For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things, a rite of initiation: initiation into the language of the subculture within which I happen to live, into a way of explaining myself to myself. But gradually, it becomes a project of translating backward. The way to jump over my Great Divine is to crawl backward over it in English. It's only when I retell my whole story, back to the beginning, and from the beginning onward, in one language, that I can reconcile the voices within me with each other; it is only then that the person who judges the voices and tells the stories begins to emerge.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • English
  • Language
  • Divine

• Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Artist

• Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

  

  Carol Orsborn
  • Rest
  • Needs
  • Place

• Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Emerge
  • Occur
  • Phone Call