Kevin Costner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.
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I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.
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They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
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What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
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Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
