martes, 2 de junio de 2015

101 QUOTES FOR TEACHING

A man is known by the company he keeps * Rome wasn't built in a day. * Lost time is never found again. * Virtue is found in the middle. * If you love life, don't waste time for time is what life is made up of. * Do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of. * Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
A person's a person, no matter how small. * No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you. * Love yourself no matter what! * Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it. BOG: 1. To cause to sink in a bog: The bus got bogged down in the muddy road. 2. To hinder or slow: The project got bogged down in haggling about procedures. v.intr. To be hindered and slowed.  * I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer. * I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband. * I see myself as a revolutionary, as a fashion rebel. * But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.(calzonazos, crybaby, chicken, quitter (perdedor, desertor) * I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. * I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done. * As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. * When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.
As for me, all I know is (that) I know nothing. * As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. * As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either. As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. * As for how he's feeling, Smith said, "Probably for the first time in my career, I feel like I’m 36."

Alas / Unfortunately / Unluckily / Sadly / Regrettably, My fun days are over. (James Dean)

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. * It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.  I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. * I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done. * As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something. *When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

Be yourself  * Be/Become who/what you are. * Know yourself. * Just do it.- Nike
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

By and large, women can bear pain better than men.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Sócrates (greek philosopher) * By all means use some time to be alone. * By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. * If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. (Van Gogh). * Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. F.D. Roosvelt

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

 Come to think of it, the strongest characters in my films were always women. Come to think of it, I play kind / sort of like a robot, very mechanical. It's kinda / sorta boring. * Come to think of it, this is neither a flaw, nor should it be surprising. * But, on reflection, I think I did the " young guy " a favour by not giving him a job. * But on reflection I do remember thinking I had forgotten to tighten one of the screws. 
Desire is the starting point of all achievement. * The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all hurt. * I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me. * You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life. * Living is no laughing matter, I mean, living must be your whole occupation. * It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype. * There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art. * There's always been a struggle between good and evil.* There's always been a struggle between the fringe and the mainstream, and between big money interests/owners and the poor/renters. If anything, ... * Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

Do what you love and do it often. * I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Don't ask what your country can do for you. Ask instead what you can do for your country. * Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. * Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. * Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence. 
Environmentalists face an uphill struggle convincing people to use their cars less.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind. * I'm nothing more than a sports slave. * Management is nothing more than motivating other people. * Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. * Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. * However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. * We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
I can resist everything but temptation. Everybody grows but me. * I'm anything but confident. * Everything changes but change. * Life is but thought. (give s.o. food for thought: Hacer reflexionar) * What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

I don't get stressed out. * I get stressed out really easily. *I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that! * If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it. *I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just / sort of stresses me out. * Don't overdo it. Don't over-diet, over-exercise, overeat, overdo the makeup, and don't stress out. * Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time. * I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.  * Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life. * I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective. * Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by my curiosity.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York. * I find it hard to get along with my mother-in-law. * I find it hard to say no to people * I find it hard to get old and hard to say, 'No.' * I find it hard not to take it personally’ I find it hard not to laugh whenever someone states that Star Trek is “above” this kind of thing. * Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I Wish I didn't Have To Work For a Living. * I wish I didn't have to live up to anything. * I wish I didn't have to wake up (early) every morning (worrying whether ...).  * I wish I didn't have to wake up early for work tomorrow but at least it's Friday.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.
 
I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

 I'm mostly pretty quiet on the weekends. I either read or visit friends or go hiking or something like that. * There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. * It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. (love)  * Nobody is neutral about 'The Wire.' You either love it, or you couldn't watch it, and there is no in-between. Success is neither magical nor mysterious * The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget * neither blame nor applaud / praise yourself.

I'd rather annoy with the truth than please with adulation. * I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not. I'd rather try and fail than not try at all * I'd rather work than not. * I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something. I'd rather be happy than right. I'd rather be dead than dying. I'd rather be lucky than good. * I'd rather be respected than loved.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. (For me), it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance. * I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. I just remembered, on reflection  

If envy were a fever all minkind would be ill. * There's one thing worse than being alonewishing you were. *
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. * If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.  Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it. * Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.The better voice doesn't mean being a better Singer. * Love means never having to say you're sorry. (Love story)

It's a weird sensation to describe, it doesn't hurt; it's just an uneasy feeling. * Truth is I’m not hard to please at all, I’m just not easily impressed. * I'm not hard to get along with , I just like things done my way.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. * Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. * Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am. * Just because you make mistakes doesn’t mean you are one.
Learning is remembering what you’re interested in.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. * Learning languages is like learning culture and traditions.....it has to be practiced.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive. * Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. * We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. * The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason. The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

Only the insecure strive for security.
 
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page.
Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. *
Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously. * It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of televisión. * It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night. 
 
 


Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. M. Gandhi★ Love is like war: easy to begin but really hard to stop.

Love means never having to say you're sorry. (Love story)

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Nothing will work unless you do. * Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams. * You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win. * Good roles are hard to find no matter what age. Love yourself no matter what! * I'd love my children no matter what. 

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. * I write to understand as much as to be understood. * Never be so brief as to become obscure. * It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. * Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. * Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.  * Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? * Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. * I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief. * No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

People striving for approval from others become phony.


Remind yourself that it's ok not to be perfect. I think the key is not to try to feel like you have to do something special. *
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.


To do two things at once is to do neither. * They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. * Flowers are restful (relaxing, quiet) to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. * Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. * Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. * People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. * I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
 

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence and a time to let go. * To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. * You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.  * Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. * To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. * Love means never having to say you're sorry (love story)
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

The more you have, the more you want * The more laws, the more offenders. * The more you know, the more you realize how Little you know. * The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh ★ The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. Walt Disney.★ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. * The more haste, the less speed. 


The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. * However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. * I don't think it's a question of age as much as it's a question of what kind of shape you're in. * I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with. * It goes without saying that children should not be given knives to play with.* What are you crying about, Anna? I love you. Everything will be all right. You'll like being married. You will. You'll see. * Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?.

Treat others as you want to be treated. * (It's) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. * It's better to be hated for what you are than (to be) loved for what/someone you're not. * It goes without saying that children should not be given knives to play with.* Police were called to a daycare where a three year old was resisting a rest. * The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

We all get stressed out at exam time. * Alex has an exam tomorrow and he's really stressing out * Work is really busy at the moment and it's stressing me out.


We love live, not because we're used to living but because we're used to loving.

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.

 
What doesn't kill you (only) makes you stronger. I really believe that. * Do what you love and do it often. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. * We know what we are, but know not what we may be. What is past is prologue.* From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.


Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

You have to think anyway, so, why not think big? * You have to know you can first. (The) How comes later.