Garson Kanin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Stress #Self #Expression
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

#Life #Spiritual #Real
Amateurs hope. Professional work.
-- Garson Kanin
The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.
-- Garson Kanin

#Important #Use #Talent
In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.
-- Garson Kanin

#Jobs #Work #Firsts
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

#Smart #People #Ignorant
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

#Art #Too Much #Trouble
Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.
-- Garson Kanin
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

#Self Confidence #Doubt #Arrogant

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that I'm afraid of losing something.
I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.
Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.

Garson Kanin famous quotes

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