Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?” — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them,… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
