Andrew Haigh Quotes

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

Andrew Haigh

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Black
  • Responsibility
  • Part

• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
  • Me
  • Wrong

• I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Inspiring
  • Often

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mountain
  • Ourselves
  • Conquer

• You can not define being exactly on time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • You
  • Define

• 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.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • More
  • Ourselves

• We got ourselves into a position to win the game and we let ourselves down again. It's not good enough.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Game
  • Position

• Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Define
  • Terms

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Change
  • Understanding

• It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Ourselves
  • Only

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Fear

• Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Love Is
  • Ourselves
  • Self-Sabotage

• In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Mission
  • Define
  • Deadline

• It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Life
  • Character
  • Events

• To move the world we must move ourselves.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Move
  • Ourselves

• We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

  

  Plotinus
  • Beauty
  • Ourselves
  • Possess

• That's very hard to define. I guess, commitment. I don't believe in love at first sight. I'm in love with my wife, but I don't always feel the same level of love. Your emotions go up and down. The strongest love is between family members, and ultimately, it boils down to commitment.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Wife
  • Don't Believe
  • Define

• 'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Ourselves
  • Remains
  • Universal

• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Live
  • Die
  • Alone

• It was clear that the number just kept growing, and there were no Hillary Clinton signs. People were fed up.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • People
  • Growing
  • Sings

• I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Work
  • Done
  • Crazy

• The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

  

  Paul LePage
  • People
  • Tired
  • Overtaxed

• I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Ourselves
  • Define
  • Relatioships