Adaptation quotes - page 43
The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
Kate Capshaw
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.
Hua Ching Ni
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
Ross Perot
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.
Temple Grandin
There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.
Glen David Gold
My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.
Howie Mandel
Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.
Pappy Boyington
We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
Isaac Newton
Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
James A. Belasco
The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.
Abba Eban
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
The key to change is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash
