Stuart Wilde Quotes

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

Stuart Wilde

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• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Theory

• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Just
  • Director
  • One Thing

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Politics

• Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.

  

  Larry Niven

• My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

  

  James Hillman
  • Children
  • Death
  • Parents

• As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • American

• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

  

  Louis Aragon

• I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.

  

  Dick Spring
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

  

  Dirk Bogarde
  • Time
  • Running

• I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • People
  • Up

• Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Work
  • Business
  • Truth

• It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

  

  James Lafferty
  • Different
  • Character
  • Interesting

• In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

  

  David Walton
  • Different
  • May
  • Character

• I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Believe
  • Ability
  • Conscience

• Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Future
  • Past
  • Hand

• To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Spirit
  • Values
  • Library

• My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Mother
  • Spirit
  • Valentine's Day

• The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Spirit
  • Ego
  • Recognition