Indulgent Quotes

• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  

  Michael Medved
  • Changed
  • Expectations
  • Prejudice

• The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Things
  • Pleasant

• You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Story

• Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • France
  • Indulgent
  • Observant

• It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fault
  • Committed
  • Indulgent

• I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Stuff
  • Terrible
  • Praised

• One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Planning
  • Meals
  • Indulgent