Ethan Hawke Quotes

The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.

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• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Hand
  • Security
  • London

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  

  Beck
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Mission

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Why
  • Ideas
  • Language

• For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Choose

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Done
  • You

• If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.

  

  Raghuram Rajan

• There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• Where equality is enthroned, freedom is extinguished. The rise of the egalitarian society means the death of the free society.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Death
  • Society
  • Free

• Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Interesting

• The thing that really breeds career longevity in this profession is doing good work. You can make $20 million a movie, but does that mean you'll still have a job when you're 60? It's a profession that eats people up and wants constant turnaround, so you have to dedicate yourself to learning and making the most of whatever gift you may have.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Learning