Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

Nick Nolte

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• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Want
  • Play
  • Limitations

• Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Limitations

• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Talk
  • Hide

• Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Man
  • Exercise
  • Stress

• Yes. When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Find Out

• I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Hate
  • Always

• Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Afraid
  • Find Out
  • Not Knowing

• I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn't be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Character
  • Words
  • Performance

• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Create
  • Works
  • Limitations

• Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Fear
  • Failure
  • Avoid

• Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Love
  • Travel
  • For Her

• To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,

  

  Peter Buck R.E.M.
  • Trouble
  • Avoid
  • Miles

• If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.

  

  John Holt
  • Child
  • Force
  • Explore

• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Avoid

• He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Unexpected
  • Find Out
  • Trackless

• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Wise
  • Pleasure

• The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Place
  • Limitations

• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Death
  • Success
  • Man

• The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Organization
  • New
  • Special

• People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Performance
  • Changing

• I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Thinking
  • Sports
  • Appreciate

• If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Avoid
  • Limitations
  • Find Out