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“If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.”
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“If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.”
Source : Alex Garland (2007). “The Beach”, p.116, Penguin UK
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“Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“They have rights who dare maintain them.”
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“I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.”
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“Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding,”
Source : Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.70, University of Toronto Press
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“Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.”
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“What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.”
Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin