Ezra Pound Quotes

My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Love
  • Emotions

• The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the way I would react if I were there. It's not something you create; all of us have everything inside ourselves.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Pretty
  • See
  • Emotions

• As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Fun
  • Audience
  • Emotions

• I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Business
  • Feel
  • Emotions

• We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Important
  • Power
  • Science

• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

  

  B. B. King
  • Guitar
  • Emotions
  • Connect

• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Laugh
  • Emotions

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

  

  Han Suyin
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Emotions

• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Soul
  • Yourself
  • Emotions

• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Enjoy

• I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Emotions
  • Roles

• One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Religion
  • Emotions
  • Succeed

• One's ships come in over a calm sea.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Sea
  • Calm
  • Come

• There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Emotions
  • Resist

• Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Energy

• Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Emotions
  • Storms

• If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.

  

  Ernest King
  • Problem
  • Lasts
  • Yesterday

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Philosophy
  • Battle
  • Custom

• My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all, better than it can ever be done again, and to find out what remains for us to do, and plenty does remain, for if we still feel the same emotions as those who launched a thousand ships, it is quite certain that we came on these feelings differently, through different nuances, by different intellectual gradations. Each age has its own abounding gifts yet only some ages transmute them into matters of duration.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Emotions
  • Remains
  • Ships