"Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing."

-- Charlie Kaufman

#Writing Quotes #Decision Quotes #Restriction Quotes

“All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.”
“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.”
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media
“My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.”
“The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

Source : Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.225, Ocean Press
“The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.”
“There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.”
“Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.”

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