“The quality of any action of body, speech, and mind is primarily determined by the motivation. Thus any action done with positive… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The chief obstacle is that we are quick to be satisfied with ourselves. If we find someone to call us good men,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
“If they’re beautiful I don’t much mind if they’re not true. It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Not many people can imagine a president of the Parlement of Aix—it is a species of beast of which people have often… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal… — Adam Cole Copy Share Image
The five C's of expanding your capacity. 1. Build your confidence. 2. Expand your connections. 3. Improve your competence. 4. Strengthen your… — Sheila Heen Copy Share Image
I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With voice acting, it liberates you to play characters you'd never do in a million years because you're physically not right. You… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“If the ethical - that is, social morality - is the highest and if there is in a person no residual incommensurability… — Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When I leave the theater I can always hear people talking about the character, and everyone always says, "You know, I know… — Gretchen Mol Copy Share Image
I remember when I was writing 'The Tin Drum,' I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I was shooting on The Mindy Project while I was editing Alex of Venice, which was the stupidest thing I could've done.… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because… — Logan Lerman Copy Share Image
When I know who is speaking, I see that there is a commitment. I need to know there is some commitment. I… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
“Problems in 21st Century – 1 Well educated and rapidly communicated, looks as smart gentleman but practices the least Morals. 2 Globally… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of.… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
After I quit being a lawyer in '95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. Then I read somewhere that Willa… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Every one of us owes a debt to the people who have shaped our minds and influenced our thinking and very often… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
So in terms of a large part of the job on our show specifically, what makes the show complex and interesting and… — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one… — Gabriel Ba Copy Share Image
