Sam Lamott famous quotes

I've learned my feelings and thoughts are secondary to what needs to get done - that what matters is the next right action.
-- Sam Lamott

#What Matters #Feelings #Done

I think I already understand about life: pretty good, some problems.
-- Sam Lamott

#Thinking #Problem

I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental.
-- Sam Lamott

#Son #Mad #Environmental

No matter how tired or stressed you are, just by getting dressed and rolling your sleeves up, you can accomplish almost anything.
-- Sam Lamott

#Tired #Stressed #Matter

The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.