Ravi Zacharias Quotes

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Ravi Zacharias

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• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Pride
  • Shoes

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Film
  • Better
  • Television

• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Culture
  • Wisdom

• 'Aren’t you even curious?' he asked. 'A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?'

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Question

• I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Magic

• Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

  

  Jane Rule
  • Integrity

• At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

  

  James Gleick
  • Words
  • Single

• Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Smart

• Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

  

  Alison Tyler

• There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Positive
  • Model

• From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Time
  • Together
  • Career

• Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Opinion

• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Money
  • Single

• It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Community
  • Service

• Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Single
  • Television
  • Emptiness