There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences. — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting. — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it… — Alan J. Pakula Copy Share Image
Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm. — Saqib Saleem Copy Share Image
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking… — Feist Copy Share Image
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
“A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter,… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
“All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw . The picture is there: what we know when we’re small; when… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that… — Rockwell Kent Copy Share Image
I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You… — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
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