Ernesto Neto Quotes
In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
-
I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
-
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
-
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
-
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.
-
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
-
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
-
I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
-
Life is an incurable disease.
-
Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
-
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
-
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
-
There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.
-
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
-
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
-
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
-
Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
-
When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
-
When the ANC says that they will target British companies, this shows what a typical terrorist organisation it is. I fought terrorism all my life and if more people fought it, and we were all more successful, we should not have it and I hope that everyone in this hall will think it is right to go on fighting terrorism. They will if they believe in democracy.
-
The trends that last and the trends that are relevant are the ones that make you look pretty.
-
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
-
I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.
-
In life you need courage to fight the dragons. The ones who live inside and the ones who live outside.
