Top 100 Quotes On Sher
#1. He constructed a road from Gaur to the river Indus," says Mushtaqui, but it is more likely that Sher Shah only repaired and realigned the road, for there had been a highway along that grid from ancient times.
Abraham Eraly
#3. Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I ever hear you talking about is Leo Tolstoy ...
(tr Benjamin Sher)
Leo Tolstoy
#4. Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
Eden Sher
#5. The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible - and usually we've been told by people without much experience.
Barbara Sher
#6. If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Barbara Sher
#7. I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
Antony Sher
#8. We weigh ourselves down with so many obstacles we can't even buy a goldfish bowl.
Barbara Sher
#9. I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.
Amrita Sher-Gil
#10. I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.
Bartlett Sher
#11. DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
Barbara Sher
#12. I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Antony Sher
#13. The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
Antony Sher
#14. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#15. It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Barbara Sher
#16. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
Barbara Sher
#17. When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Barbara Sher
#18. Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Barbara Sher
#19. As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.
Amrita Sher-Gil
#20. I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, between 'Do I stay where I am with my family because I love them or do I follow the thing that makes my heart feel the greatest?'
Bartlett Sher
#21. When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
Bartlett Sher
#22. That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
Bartlett Sher
#23. I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
Eden Sher
#24. A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.
Barbara Sher
#25. About things you merely like? Would you rather learn how to plant a garden, work with friends to paint a house, or just have a great day with
Barbara Sher
#26. What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
Barbara Sher
#27. Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
Barbara Sher
#28. An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?
Sher Valenzuela
#29. We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
#30. What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
Barbara Sher
#32. Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.
Antony Sher
#33. When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.
Antony Sher
#34. When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
Antony Sher
#35. I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
Antony Sher
#36. Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
Antony Sher
#37. A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
Antony Sher
#39. We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
Barbara Sher
#40. I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
Eden Sher
#41. The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher
#42. Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.
Sher Valenzuela
#43. What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
Barbara Sher
#44. I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
Antony Sher
#45. A good work is a partnership between you and nature ... Nature will help you every step of the way.
Barbara Sher
#46. Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
Bartlett Sher
#47. And be grateful that you're a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what's between her ears.
Barbara Sher
#48. Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
#49. Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
Barbara Sher
#50. I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
Antony Sher
#51. Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
Barbara Sher
#52. The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher
#53. Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
Barbara Sher
#54. I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.
Antony Sher
#55. Remember that to yourself, you are and always will be the strongest element in your environment. That's why any job, right or wrong, will teach you important lessons about yourself. The truth is that personal development is the real reason you should be working in the first place.
Barbara Sher
#57. Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.
Barbara Sher
#58. I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
Eden Sher
#59. The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Barbara Sher
#60. Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's not real life and a steady diet of stories like that will give you a pretty unhealthy view of reality.
Bartlett Sher
#61. The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.
Sher Valenzuela
#62. We have enough to worry about with what's happening in our nation to worry about what's happening in California. Keep your feet grounded in your own backyard and together we're going to build communities that work.
Sher Valenzuela
#63. Find out what you love.
Do it because you love it.
Stick with it.
Start now.
Barbara Sher
#65. Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.
Barbara Sher
#66. Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.
Barbara Sher
#67. We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.
Antony Sher
#68. What's great about [Guettel] is his very distinct voice as a composer. And that distinct voice is something worth cherishing and expressing so we just didn't want to screw that up.
Bartlett Sher
#69. Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
Barbara Sher
#70. I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
Eden Sher
#72. I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.
Antony Sher
#73. I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
Eden Sher
#74. In your fantasies you imagine that you'd love to have all the clutter gone so you could relax, but in fact, nobody really wants to relax. Not for very long, anyway. Everybody needs something to do.
Barbara Sher
#76. Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.
Antony Sher
#77. If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
Antony Sher
#78. Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
Barbara Sher
#79. Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history.
Antony Sher
#80. You can wonder forever how many teeth a horse has - or you can find a horse, open its mouth, and count its teeth.
Barbara Sher
#81. In order to secure our unlimited future, we need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.
Sher Valenzuela
#82. I represent the small businesses, the women, and the families working so hard to rebuild our communities.
Sher Valenzuela
#83. The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
Bartlett Sher
#84. Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
Barbara Sher
#85. Before last night, the most action I had gotten was from a down pillow.
Abby Sher
#86. It's only too late if you don't start now.
Barbara Sher
#87. Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.
Antony Sher
#88. The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.
Sher Valenzuela
#89. It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.
Antony Sher
#90. In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
Barbara Sher
#91. You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
Antony Sher
#92. You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.
Barbara Sher
#93. I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
Eden Sher
#94. Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
Barbara Sher
#95. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
#96. I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
Eden Sher
#97. Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.
Barbara Sher
#98. Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
Barbara Sher
#99. Start small.
Start now.
Start everything.
And don't bother to finish any of it.
Barbara Sher
#100. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
Barbara Sher
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