Thomas Aquinas Quotes

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas

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• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

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• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

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• One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'

  

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• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

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• If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

  

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• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

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• I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

  

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• I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.

  

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• Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

  

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• It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.

  

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• I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

  

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• When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.

  

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• When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.

  

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• But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.

  

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• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

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• Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

  

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• I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up.

  

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• I saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman' when I was about 15, and I couldn't get up from my seat in the theater; I was so... I was weeping, and I was upset. And I find that people are still like that in a similar circumstance in a theater today, where they just can't get up. It's too heartbreaking.

  

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• With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.

  

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• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

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• Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Attention
  • Relax
  • Pray