Eric Maisel Quotes

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Legacy

• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Movement
  • Sides
  • Masses

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Hard
  • Out
  • Account

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• Writing bores me so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Writing
  • Bores

• I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Youth
  • Very
  • Involved

• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Causes

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Song
  • Girl

• You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Money
  • Art
  • Think

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Done
  • Career
  • Learning

• Okay, roll-call, no talking. Benny, Marc; Ethel, Shakina, nice shoes. Bobo twins, anyone seen the Bobo twins? Those Bobo twins.11

  

  Ze Frank
  • Nice
  • Shoes

• The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too.

  

  Karen Kingston
  • World
  • Reason
  • Corresponding

• I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something. How careful you have to be about checking your experiments. How easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mistake
  • Fool
  • Easy

• I think when you look around this league, so much is scripted. And not scripted in a sense that the league is scripted, but when guys talk, it's like, 'Say this. Yeah, come out and say that.' Like, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm going to say what's on my mind. I'm going to say what's on my heart. It's just genuine speaking.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.

  

  Ahmed Kathrada
  • Mind
  • Open
  • Closed

• A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Mind
  • Calm
  • WIld