Demme Learning Quotes & Sayings

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. — Jonathan Demme

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way. — Rachel Kushner

Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be. — Jennifer O'Neill

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be. — Jean Baker Miller

A Native American wisdom story tells of an old Cherokee who is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed. — Kristin Neff

When you go hard your nays become yays. Yankee stadium with Jays and Kanyes. — Nicki Minaj

You can't win a game if you don't score any points. — John Madden

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. — Anne Sexton

She [the wife of godly character] brings him [her husband] good, not harm, all the days of her life (Proverbs 31:12). Wait a minute! My mind raced. All the days of her life? What was that supposed to mean? I had yet to meet any woman who had been married all the days of her life. Did this verse mean that she tried to do her husband good ... even before she met him? — Leslie Ludy

Partridge was pretending not to lurk near the stairs. 'The body's under the desk,' I said as I passed, just to give her something to worry about. — Jodi Taylor