"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Respect Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Want Quotes

“Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.”
“A few people have said I should let you win”
“Custom is often only the antiquity of error.”
“It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better then the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It's very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because a boy sees her that way.”
“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”

Source : Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “An Actor Prepares”, p.38, A&C Black
“At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.”
“Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.”
“He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.”

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