Gavin de Becker Quotes

No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.

Gavin de Becker

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• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Want
  • Problems
  • Terrorism

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • My Life

• I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Children
  • Energy

• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dark

• My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Filmmaking
  • Bureaucracy

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Matter
  • Him
  • Ahead

• Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • Eyes
  • Sleep

• Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Positive
  • Independent

• He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Good
  • Son

• I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Life
  • Health
  • Quality

• In its essence, technology is something that man does not control.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Control
  • Technology

• If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Why
  • Power
  • Nature

• No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.

  

  Gavin de Becker
  • Control
  • Famous
  • Conduct