"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."

-- Muhammad Iqbal

#Mind Quotes #Violent Quotes #Type Quotes

“What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.”
“But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.”
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”
“But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.”
“I guess racism is sort of like a form of discrimination but it's just that you classify people in different colours and different races. I think everyone is born with an inherent, the inherence to discriminate.”
“Except that itâ€™s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. Itâ€™s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mindâ€™s awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.”
“The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.45, Vintage

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