Banging Head Against Wall Quotes

#1. I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.

Peter Greenaway

#2. Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

Harold S. Kushner

#3. Don't give up.
I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour.

Mike Brown

#5. There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

Epicurus

#6. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.

Caroline Myss

#7. Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

Questlove

#8. You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)

Geneen Roth

#9. It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.

Cassandra Clare

#10. You must be kind to others. You must foster a caretaker personality of gentleness and perseverance, even in the midst of adversity.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have
others think of us.

Jane Austen

#12. If you've been banging your head against a brick wall, wipe the blood off, take a couple of pain killers and try it from another angle. Failing that, use the door.

Andy Love

#13. Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

Donald Glover

#14. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Zelda Popkin

#15. If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Paul Tillich

#16. If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.

Irene Cara

#17. Yes, it is a dull beginning. I say, let us pretend that it is the end.

J.M. Barrie

#18. The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe

#19. Clearly the secret of happiness ... is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

Stef Penney

#20. I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#21. Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#22. If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

Rico Lebrun