"I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers."

-- Akiva Goldsman

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.”
“Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.”
“And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.83, Penguin
“As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.”

Source : "Exclusive: Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein Talk HORRIBLE BOSSES, BURT WONDERSTONE, OF ALL THE THINGS, VACATION Reboot, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2011.
“A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.”
“An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.”
“You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.”
“Everybody wants ta get inta da act!”

Source : "Billboard" Magazine, (p. 126), April 23, 1949.

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