Noah Taylor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.
-- Noah Taylor

#Thinking #Organization #Spirituality
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
-- Noah Taylor

#Home #Australia #Individualism
But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan.
-- Noah Taylor

#Cash #Reeds #Fans
I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?
-- Noah Taylor

#People #Training #Acting
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.
-- Noah Taylor

#Philosophy #Trying #World
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
-- Noah Taylor

#Art #Over You #Desire

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.
Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.

Noah Taylor famous quotes

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