Mike Leigh Quotes

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

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• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Victim
  • Awareness
  • Survivor

• I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Way
  • Awareness

• The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Awareness
  • Yours
  • Richer

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Consciousness

• With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Awareness
  • Caution

• All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Honest
  • Awareness
  • Self-examination

• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Knowledge

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Spiritual
  • Consciousness

• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • True
  • Inspiring
  • Awareness

• Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Reality
  • Constant
  • Eternal

• There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Empathy

• Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Change
  • Constant

• Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Words

• I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Self
  • Awareness

• Higher thought forms trump lower ones. In the presence of a high frequency of human consciousness, all lower thought forms ultimately drop of their own dead weight.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • High
  • Trump
  • Consciousness

• From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Reflection

• The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Real
  • Consciousness

• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Faith

• The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

  

  Claude Lelouch
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • Films

• He is nothing to look at, and yet I can’t stop looking at him. There is something beautiful in how his face is made, how all the tiny flaws blend together into something more perfect than perfection could ever be.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Together
  • Perfect
  • Face

• No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

  

  Epictetus
  • Power
  • Advantage
  • No Matter What

• Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.

  

  Anthony Heald
  • Job
  • Actors
  • Artists

• There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Consciousness
  • Awareness
  • Constant