"One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth."

-- Peter Kreeft

#Honesty Quotes #Harm Quotes #Pursuit Quotes

“If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.”
“It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.”
“I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.”
“We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I am struck again by the permanent impassibility of the divide. Some people who have lost a husband or a wife report feeling that person's presence, receiving that person's advice. Some report actual sightings, what Freud described in "Mourning and Melancholia" as "a clinging to the object through the medium of a hallucinatory wishful psychosis." Others describe not a visible apparition but just a "very strongly felt presence."”
“At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.”
“It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.”

Source : B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.257, Hackett Publishing
“Even if you make a movie about a criminal locked up in prison, you may not support him as a criminal, but you have to like him on some level. You have to love your protagonist and respect him. He will only open his heart to you when he believes that you are treating him with respect, with love. Only then will there be no more walls between the filmmaker and the protagonist.”
“The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.”

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