Ben Nicholas famous quotes

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Life #Motivational #Inspiration

Most people are nice and just want to have a chat.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Nice #People #Want

My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Games #Firsts #Scene

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Actors

I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Theatre #Sound #Sound Of Music

I've done a little bit of TV. I'm doing a little mini-series at the moment called 'Scooter.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Done #Littles #Tvs

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.
-- Ben Nicholas

#Character #Play #The End Of The Day

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.