Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Alan Watts

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

Alan Watts

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Akshay Kumar

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Chita Rivera

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

China Mieville

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

David Sedaris

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

David R. Brower

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Alan Rickman

I don't play villains, I play very interesting people

Alan Rickman

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

Alan Rickman

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

Chris Christie

I am who I am, but I am not a bully,

Chris Black

You can't be wishy-washy. That's the most boring thing in the world, to be a middle-of-the-road wet noodle. That's my greatest fear, to be like, "Oh, whatever." That's just not who I am.

Chloe Sevigny

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

Chinua Achebe

Nobody can teach me who I am.

Chinua Achebe

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Dave Franco

In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am and they've opened me up as an actor. I want to take some of that to apply it to when I'm directing actors.

David Guterson

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.