Robert Zemeckis Quotes
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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We all work for the president, and we all will ultimately follow his direction.
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To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.
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When we say nasty things about other people, we’re really criticizing something in them that we don’t like in ourselves.
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When we see God through a fear-based lens, we end up with an inaccurate view of ourselves.
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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I think there is a moment in every parent's life where we realize that we have lost ourselves a little bit. It's a moment of looking in the mirror and going, 'I need to put on some lipstick.
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I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
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If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.
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We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
