"Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Giving Quotes #Fearless Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.”
“Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.”
“You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”
“The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.”
“It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.”
“All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.”
“Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf”
“I think it's cool to give people encouragement.”

Source : "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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