Top 48 Arndt Quotes
#1. Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
Damon Lindelof
#2. Take your time.
Stay away from the easy going.
Never take the same way twice.
Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942
GYSGT Charles C. Arndt
#3. In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Johann Arndt
#4. Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
Michael Arndt
#6. Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Michael Arndt
#8. One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.
Michael Arndt
#9. If you only know something one way, then you don't really know it.
Michael Arndt
#10. Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.
Michael Arndt
#11. In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Michael Arndt
#12. Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
Johann Arndt
#13. My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.
Michael Arndt
#14. We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.
Michael Arndt
#15. They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
#16. It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
Johann Arndt
#17. Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Michael Arndt
#18. The good husbands understand and offer to help. "All you have to do is ask" they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given. All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It's often easier to do it yourself.
Bettina Arndt
#19. Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
Bettina Arndt
#21. Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
#22. Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where you are made happy by that which made your most distant ancestors happy.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
#24. The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
Michael Arndt
#25. Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.
Michael Arndt
#26. Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.
Johann Arndt
#28. Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
#29. Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.
Johann Arndt
#30. The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.
Michael Arndt
#31. But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.
Johann Arndt
#32. You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.
Michael Arndt
#33. For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
Johann Arndt
#34. All thought is created, therefore we are all creators of whatever world we live in.
Michael Arndt
#35. The fluidity of thought is based on the flexibility of beliefs and the emotional boundaries surrounding them.
Michael Arndt
#36. Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.
Michael Arndt
#37. This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann Arndt
#38. My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
Michael Arndt
#39. Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Johann Arndt
#40. It has been noted that one needs only 39 digits of Pi to make a circle the size of the observable universe accurate to one atom of hydrogen.
Jorg Arndt
#41. Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Michael Arndt
#42. Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
Johann Arndt
#43. I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
Michael Arndt
#44. I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Michael Arndt
#45. If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.
Michael Arndt
#46. I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Michael Arndt
#47. The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
Ernst Moritz Arndt
#48. Changing how you think costs you no money and it takes no special talent. It does take a commitment on your part to be different.
Michael Arndt
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