George Watsky Quotes
You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.
Quotes to Explore
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
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I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. It took awhile to get over that whole, "That's Elijah Wood - Frodo, from The Lord of the Rings." I was a mega fan of that. I went to the all-day screenings of the director's cut, where you could see the really long versions of all three movies, in one day.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
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I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.
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I knew Elvis Presley very well. He always felt somebody was after him. When you have that kind of a fear, that kind of an attitude, you attract people who want to do you harm.
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From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.
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If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
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I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.
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I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.
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You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.
