Don Siegel Quotes

#1. Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

Clint Eastwood

#2. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."

- J.B Books in The Shootist 1976, directed by Don Siegel

John Wayne

#3. Because we have a sense of completion within us, and because we have the will and desire to reach that state of completion, human beings have the potential for greatness and can become greater at any time.

Ilchi Lee

#4. I squirmed. "What kind of angel uses words like quick fuck?"
He cocked an eyebrow. "Fallen ones.

Kristina Douglas

#5. People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, "You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?", and they always had a story to tell me.

Bernie Siegel

#6. If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

Joel Siegel

#7. What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

Bernie Siegel

#8. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

Bernie Siegel

#9. By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.

Bernie Siegel

#10. If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

Bernie Siegel

#11. WHAT IS INTEGRATION AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Most of us don't think about the fact that our brain has many different parts with different jobs. For example, you have a left side of

Daniel J. Siegel

#12. I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.

Alan Siegel

#13. The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

Narendra Modi

#14. Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well.

Assata Shakur

#15. Reduce words Embrace emotions Describe, don't preach Involve your child in the discipline Reframe a no into a conditional yes Emphasize the positive Creatively approach the situation Teach mindsight tools

Daniel J. Siegel

#16. A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

Francis Bacon

#17. If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible.

Rick Warren

#18. I rein myself in. I'm already breaking up with the guy. I don't have to ruin his favorite movie.

Philip Siegel

#19. Apparently the only thing worse than a terrorist attack, is a gay man stopping it!

Jon Stewart

#20. Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

Joel Siegel

#21. They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

Joel Siegel

#22. I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.

Alan Siegel

#23. It's okay, you can do it. Because I am playing with myself as I write this, I hope you're doing the same as you read it. Otherwise there's not much point. Go ahead. Don't be shy or modest, prudish or self-conscious. That's it. It feels nice, doesn't it?

Lee Siegel

#24. I don't think it's right to congratulate someone for having an ugly baby. It will only encourage her to have another one.

Philip Siegel

#25. Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

Bernie Siegel

#26. If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political - are destined to be driven to the brink, further jeopardizing the strength and competitiveness of our country and its citizens.

Alan Siegel

#27. Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate ... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis ...

George Will

#28. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it ... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

Joel Siegel

#29. You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.

Eli Siegel

#30. The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

David A. Siegel

#31. Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

#32. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Bernie Siegel

#33. Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it.

Bernie Siegel