Elizabeth Wein Quotes
It makes you very uncomfortable to realize that your emotional attachment to something is an indulgence.
Quotes to Explore
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
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My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.
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I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind.
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They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
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Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.
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Polite beggary is too common.
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In fact you can begin to discover and investigate whether you are an actor or not, whether you're in my view, qualified for a life in this profession or in this endeavor by checking yourself out and acting every day, getting plays and scripts and getting together with people and divvying up the parts and acting in one way or another, or writing things.
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I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
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Your wish is your command.
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
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If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?
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Whatever you do, please don’t think of sleep as wasted time, an indulgence, or a generous reservoir from which you can steal time for work. Do what your brain and body beg you to do: get enough sleep.
