Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Quotes to Explore
-
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
-
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
-
In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
-
From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
-
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
-
Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
-
When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
-
You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
-
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
-
If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
-
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
-
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
-
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
-
You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
-
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
-
Value is what you get.
-
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
-
Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
-
My head is in the game! Like 'High School Musical' taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don't have to take yourself seriously.
-
To be honest, I didn't love the high-fashion world because models aren't always treated that well. I was a scrappy kid from a farm, and that world felt a little snobby. But I was grateful for it, and my photo shoots now are really fast because I know my poses.
-
When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun flash does not synchronize with the squib or whatever - it takes half an hour or 40 minutes to clean it all up and reset it. It's much easier to use a computer to paint in the flash and splatter.
-
The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
-
I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.
-
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
