Garson Kanin Quotes

#1. There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

Garson Kanin

#2. I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is!

Steve McClaren

#3. The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

Garson Kanin

#4. There are only two kinds of books
good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Edward Abbey

#5. So it can be seen that the trouble with the motion picture art was (and is) that it is too much an industry; and the trouble with the motion picture industry is that it is too much an art. It is out of this basic contradiction that most of the ills of the form arise.

Garson Kanin

#6. I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, "I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be", then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, "I shouldn't be here!"

Karl Pilkington

#7. Give yourself for the course of living for others, improving their lives, becoming a deliverer to a nation and you will never be at the losing end

Sunday Adelaja

#8. While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering.

Jen Hatmaker

#9. A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Garson Kanin

#10. Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

Garson Kanin

#11. I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Garson Kanin

#12. The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed ... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Garson Kanin

#13. As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

Garson Kanin

#14. In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Garson Kanin

#15. Thanks, babe. It takes true talent to get your ass whipped.

Sophie Oak