A lot of what acting is is paying attention.
—Robert Redford (American Actor)
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
—Dorothea Brande (American Author)
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
—Linda Ellerbee (American Journalist)
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
—William O. Douglas (American Jurist)
Fear breeds fear.
—Byron Janis (American Pianist)
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
—Bob Edwards (American Journalist)
Don’t wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
—Mary Manin Morrissey (American Author)
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
—Dante Alighieri (Italian Poet, Philosopher)
To praise is an investment in happiness.
—George Matthew Adams (American Columnist)
The very best way to learn self-control is by practicing self-control.
—Sterling W. Sill (American Author)
There has always been the pure nature of mind and there has always been fundamental ignorance in the mind.
—Kalu Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhist Master)
No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.
—Havelock Ellis (British Essayist, Physician)
The question to everyone’s answer is usually asked from within.
—Steve Miller (American Musician)
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
—E. V. Lucas (British Writer)
Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.
—F. Matthias Alexander (Australian Educator)
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
—Susan B. Anthony (American Civil Rights Leader)