Andy Whitfield Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
-
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
-
I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
-
If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
-
I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
-
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
-
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
-
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
-
Know or listen to those who know.
-
Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
-
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
-
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
-
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
-
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
-
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
-
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
-
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
-
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
-
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
-
When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to integrate with social networks, gather rich personal data to build predictive algorithms, and put together numerous cool visualization tools before launching out to the world. We were just sure users would love it!
-
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
-
From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.
-
Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
