Piero Ferrucci Quotes

#1. Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

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#2. it is clear that our very survival, even today, depends upon the acts and kindness of so many people.

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#3. You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.

Stephanie Zacharek

#4. Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.

John Wanamaker

#5. It's all fun and games till someone shoots back, Holden thought.

James S.A. Corey

#6. The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love ... but one star is brightest among all: the self. I found the source of livingness inside me, something I didn't even know existed.

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#7. We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

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#8. We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

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#9. I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

M.C. Escher

#10. Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it ... Kind people are healthier and live longer.

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#11. Even just a normal shot I find that much more interesting because of the 3D. It's like a shot of a couple of cars and us walking and it's like, "Oh wow, this is 3D. I've never seen this before!".

Emile Hirsch

#12. It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

Robin Williams

#13. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value

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#14. The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence ... in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.

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#15. But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.

Marcel Proust

#16. Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.

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#17. Now, as husbands go, I have to admit I did all right. Joe is unquestionably handsome, doesn't leave ragged toenail clippings scattered about the house, and has never once, in nearly five thousand days of togetherness, left the toilet seat up.

Jenna McCarthy

#18. If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

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#19. Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)

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#20. Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

Angelique Kidjo

#21. There is no choice between being kind to others, and being kind to ourselves. It is the same thing.

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#22. It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

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#23. Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'

Audrey Meadows

#24. I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

David Baldacci

#25. How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? ... A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

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#26. Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

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#27. One should never let sleeping dogs lie.

Ashwin Sanghi

#28. We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.

Ralph Merkle

#29. To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence and tact, is the kindest thing to do because it respects our own integrity and acknowledges in others the capacity to be competent and mature.

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