Catherine Ponder Quotes

If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

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• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Night
  • Air
  • Cold

• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Good
  • Happen
  • Good Things

• I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Space

• The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • People
  • Remember
  • Best

• We got offers to make sequels to both 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' and they never really interested us because we like having these endings where it seems very final but could hint at some kind of future adventure that you'll never see.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Kind
  • Adventure

• I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Debate

• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Companies
  • Less

• As far as I'm concerned, nothing has changed. One thing I always know about Jerry, he is absolutely trustworthy and always doing the best that he can.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Change
  • Nothing
  • Concerned

• If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Jesus

• We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Money
  • Energy
  • Transmute

• Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Dying
  • Christmas
  • Sin

• My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

  

  George Clooney
  • College
  • Parent
  • Disappointment

• I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Bread

• Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Work
  • Muse

• One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation to the Ironside who was in 'Top Gun'?' And I said, 'I am, yes.' And she grinned and said, 'I knew it! Talent must run in your family!' And she walked away. And all of the producers and directors kind of looked at me uncertainly, and I said, 'What are you guys so uncomfortable for? That's an incredible compliment. I do look like the father of that guy, for Christ's sake!'

  

  Michael Ironside
  • Family
  • Father
  • Christ

• If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Dare
  • Compliment