Butterworth Quotes & Sayings

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly. — Eric Butterworth

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be. — Eric Butterworth

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. — Eric Butterworth

Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible. — Eric Butterworth

Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered. — Eric Butterworth

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. — Eric Butterworth

I am receptive to the inflow and outpouring of the universe. — Eric Butterworth

God can only do for you what He can do through you. — Eric Butterworth

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences. — Eric Butterworth

One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go. — Eric Butterworth

Don't go through life, grow though life — Eric Butterworth

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life. — Eric Butterworth

And even one life that bears witness to the truth of the prosperity law will quicken the consciousness of the whole community. — Eric Butterworth

The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it. — Eric Butterworth

Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold. — Eric Butterworth

All things are possible to God and to you in God-consciousness. — Eric Butterworth

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. — Eric Butterworth

Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present — Eric Butterworth

Under the sustaining influence of love, the physical body is always at its best. It is probably true that more people are sick from lack of love in their lives than from all other causes put together. — Eric Butterworth

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person. — Eric Butterworth

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth

I'm heavy stone, me. You try and pick me up, I'll break your spine. — Jez Butterworth

Do not go through life; grow through life. — Eric Butterworth

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover. — Eric Butterworth

I may bring other women here, to this place, and I may tell them I love them, and make love to them. But they will be impostors. And I will be a ghost. Because it means I will have lost you. My body, my brain, my lungs, my stomach, my guts, legs, arms will be here but I won't be. I will be out there, looking for you. And if we meet somewhere, at a restaurant, or a party and I'm with someone, I want you to know that they are by my side only because you are not. And she will be beautiful. And I will be laughing and smiling and she will be laughing and smiling, but she will be laughing at a lie. Because all I will have done to that person is lie to them. All I will do to anyone else, forever, from this moment forward, anyone who isn't you, is lie. I have no choice. — Jez Butterworth

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something. — Jez Butterworth

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks. — Jez Butterworth

God is in you as the ocean is in the wave. — Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. — Eric Butterworth

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness. — Eric Butterworth

The genius does not differ from others in their access to the light within, only in their confident acceptance of its natural outstreaming. — Eric Butterworth

A lifetime's work, to try and say one thing that's true. — Jez Butterworth

The whole of God is present at every point in space at the same time. Take time to meditate on this great idea. In other words, God doesn't come and go. God doesn't capriciously move substance from God's supply "up there" to fill your needs "down here." Nor does God answer prayer in some kind of coming forth. God is always present, totally present - as a Presence. — Eric Butterworth

We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know? — Amanda Butterworth

I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later. — Jez Butterworth

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be. — Eric Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run. — Jez Butterworth

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be. — Eric Butterworth

Infinite Mind will put ideas into your mind, words into your mouth, creativity into your hands, boundless opportunity before you, and guiding light on your way. — Eric Butterworth

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here. — Jez Butterworth

Missing the mark is one of the ways in which we learn to hit the target. — Eric Butterworth

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. — Eric Butterworth

Don't go through life; grow through life. — Eric Butterworth

There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law. — Eric Butterworth

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts. — Eric Butterworth

Love so that you may actually be what you innately are. — Eric Butterworth

Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron," Sebastian said approvingly. "Excellent choice."
"You have read this?" Alexei asked.
"It's not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better than Miss Sainsbury and the Mysterious Colonel."
Harry found himself rendered speechless.
"I'm reading Miss Truesdale and the Silent Gentleman right now."
"Silent?" Harry echoed.
"There is a noticeable lack of dialogue," Sebastian confirmed. — Julia Quinn

Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. — Eric Butterworth

If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget. — Eric Butterworth

tired, wore a long-sleeved white shirt, its cuffs rolled up to his elbows, and khakis, both starched but well wrinkled. A wide-brimmed floppy canvas hat shielded his pale face and scalp from the sun. Roosevelt held up his glass in the direction of Mount Vernon, now visible on the southern bank. "A toast to our first commander in chief," the present commander in chief announced, "and spymaster. I trust you're aware that George Washington set up the Continental Army's first — William E. Butterworth IV

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. — Eric Butterworth

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind. — Eric Butterworth

You can have all you can expect and accept. — Eric Butterworth

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Bob Butterworth

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect. — Eric Butterworth

I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand. — Eric Butterworth

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part. — Eric Butterworth

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think. — Eric Butterworth

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being. — Eric Butterworth

A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers. — Oliver Butterworth

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are. — Eric Butterworth

We are human in expression, but divine in creation and limitless in potentiality. — Eric Butterworth

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. — Jez Butterworth

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past. — Jez Butterworth

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. — Jez Butterworth

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled. — Eric Butterworth

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God. — Eric Butterworth

When your mind is functioning correctly, there is an out streaming of light from within in the form of inspiration, hunches, leadings, and intuitive flashes - trust this process of inspiration. "In the twinkling of an eye" ideas and plans may flow into your mind. — Eric Butterworth

The innermost essence of my being ... is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. — Eric Butterworth

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits. — Eric Butterworth

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it. — Jez Butterworth

We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him. — Eric Butterworth

It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem, while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is something more than a poem. Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns. There can be poetry without emotion, but a hymn never. A poem may argue; a hymn must not. In short to be a hymn, what is written must express spiritual feelings and desires. The music of faith, hope and charity will be somewhere in its strain. — Hezekiah Butterworth

When you have kids, you can choose to make them like you, or become like them, and if you've got something that's going to change every six days or six minutes, you can decide to be as awake and alive and learning as they are. — Jez Butterworth

The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good. — Eric Butterworth

The ideal is not believing in, but believing from. — Eric Butterworth

JOHNNY: Friends! Outcasts. Leeches. Undesirables. A blessing on you, and upon this beggars' banquet. This day we draw a line in the chalk, and push back against the bastard pitiless busybody council, and drive them from this place for ever. I, Rooster Byron, your merciless ruler, have decreed that today all my bounty is bestowed upon you, gratis. There will be free booze, bangers, draw, whizz and whatnot, for all the minions of my kingdom. — Jez Butterworth

The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it. — Eric Butterworth

Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them. — Jon Butterworth

Come, you drunken spirits. Come, you battalions. You fields of ghosts who walk these green plains still. Come, you giants! — Jez Butterworth

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. — Eric Butterworth

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. — Eric Butterworth

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person. — Eric Butterworth

Life is serious...but you cannot take it seriously. — Peter Butterworth

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel that there is an anti-mathematical principle that is luring us into the wrong answers. — Eric Butterworth

Happy St George's Day. Now kiss my beggar arse, you Puritans! — Jez Butterworth

I, Rooster John Byron, hereby place a curse
Upon the Kennet and Avon Council,
May they wander the land for ever,
Never sleep twice in the same bed,
Never drink water from the same well,
And never cross the same river twice in a year.
He who steps in my blood, may it stick to them
Like hot oil. May it scorch them for life,
And may the heat dry up their souls,
And may they be filled with the melancholy
Wine won't shift. And all their newborn babies
Be born mangled, with the same marks,
The same wounds of their fathers.
Any uniform which brushes a single leaf of this wood
Is cursed, and he who wears it this St George's Day,
May he not see the next. — Jez Butterworth

Diligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe. — Eric Butterworth

The four things that matter in life: 1) love 2) honesty 3) faith 4) courage. — Bill Butterworth

Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice. — Eric Butterworth

As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet." — Eric Butterworth

The thing I fear comes upon me — Eric Butterworth

Within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe. — Eric Butterworth

My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off. — Jez Butterworth