Essentials Quote by Jonas Mekas Download Open image “Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life” — Jonas Mekas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essentials Insignificant Life Quality
“learning what seems insignificant can be training us for (and about) what’s essential—that what’s ultimate can unwittingly be at stake in what appears to… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told me and… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
It's easy to put insignificant, silly stuff behind you when life shows you what is truly important. — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
“One of the most important things for a person to understand in life is this: What is very important to you may be so… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Everything that we do is insignificant...and...it is very important that we do it! — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Always cherish the simple things in life and people that treat you right! That is most important... Everything and Everyone else is simply insignificant... — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
To me, cinema is cinema. Cinema is one big tree with many branches. The same as literature. In literature, you don't just say, 'Oh,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture. — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words,… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into bite-sized pieces,… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
