Steve Gustafson Quotes

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• The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Trees

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • True
  • Opinions
  • Worth

• All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Costume

• It's not a bad time to be me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Star
  • Table
  • Restaurant

• The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• The worst is feeling worthless.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Worst

• Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Success
  • Giving

• I love my boys so much I fear my heart will explode. I wonder if this love will crack open my chest and split me in half. It is scary, this love.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fear

• My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Life
  • Book
  • Stop

• Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Energy
  • Lost
  • Perspective

• Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Spiritual
  • Compassion

• Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.

  

  Steve Carr
  • Challenge
  • Feel
  • Laugh

• Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Matter
  • Faces
  • Storm

• Feeling of an emotion is a process that is distinct from having the emotion in the first place. So it helps to understand what is an emotion, what is a feeling, we need to understand what is an emotion.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Feeling
  • Place
  • Emotion

• There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Emotion

• We strive to be in time and in tune, then capture the emotion.

  

  Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs
  • Emotion
  • Capture
  • Tune