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10 Life Lessons

Posted on July 25, 2011 by

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.” ~ Albert Einstein

Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don’t have the answers. And if you don’t have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else’s solutions will seem appropriate. You’ll have to come up with your own.” ~ Chuck Close

You practice and you get better. It’s very simple.” ~ Philip Glass

A big part of life is realizing what you’re good at.” ~ Alyssa Milano

Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That’s the secret to life, really — never stop learning. It’s the secret to career. I’m still working because I learn something new all the time. It’s the secret to relationships. Never think you’ve got it all.” ~ Clint Eastwood

You can’t just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.” ~ J. Craig Venter

A friend is someone who will tell you when you’re bullshitting, when you’ve overstepped a mark, or when you’re being an idiot.” ~ Sting

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have — certainly Americans have it — is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.”~ E. O. Wilson

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It’s doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.” ~ Julia Child

In the end, winning is sleeping better.” ~ Jodie Foster

Movies Quotes

Posted on October 13, 2010October 9, 2010 by

“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” – Clint Eastwood

“All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” – Steve Martin

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.” – David Mamet

“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.” – Billy Wilder

“The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.” – Jodie Foster

“A film has its own life and takes its own time.” – Aaron Eckhart

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” – Walt Disney

“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.” – Katharine Hepburn

“In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.” – Gwyneth Paltrow

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” – Roger Ebert

Psychology Quotes

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

– “A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.” – Stanley Smith Stevens

– “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White

– “Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline – sociology – as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.” – Richard Wall

– “Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.” – David Chalmers

– “After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.” – Philip Zimbardo

– “Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology – that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.” – Ferdinand de Saussure

– “Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.” – David Chalmers

– “But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.” – Rachel Dratch

– “By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.” – Jodie Foster

– “Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.” – Wilhelm Wundt

– “Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.” – Steven Pinker

– “For me it’s always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.” – Billy Zane

– “History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.” – Robert Anton Wilson

– “Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.” – Theodor Adorno

– “I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people – how they act and such.” – Dane Cook

– “I can’t think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.” – Keith Henson

– “I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.” – Mordechai Vanunu

– “I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.” – Corin Nemec

– “I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.” – Tim Robbins

– “I loved making ‘Rising Sun’. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.” – Tatjana Patitz