Goddard Quotes & Sayings

Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality. — Neville Goddard

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire. — Neville Goddard

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard

NOTHING is impossible to you. — Neville Goddard

Life is about family and technology. — Mark Goddard

If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one. — Drew Goddard

I hope that they enjoy the movie. Don't be critical. Don't expect to get the same feelings you got when you watched the series when you were 10 years old. Let your kids see it and experience it on their own. — Mark Goddard

It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies. — Drew Goddard

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today. — Mark Goddard

Today were Wednesday and you decided that it would be quite possible for your desire to embody a new realization of yourself by Sunday, then Sunday becomes the point in time that you would visit. To make this visit you shut out Wednesday and let in Sunday. This is accomplished by simply feeling that it is Sunday, Begin to hear the church bells; begin to feel the quietness of the day and all that Sunday means to you; actually feel that it is Sunday. — Neville Goddard

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there. — Drew Goddard

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot. — Mark Goddard

Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation. — Neville Goddard

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off. — Drew Goddard

Being liked or not, having company or not, being understood or not, being acknowledged or not are not issues of concern on the spiritual path. — Donna Goddard

Everything in the world bears witness of the use or misuse of man's inner talking. Negative inner talking, particularly evil and envious inner talking, are the breeding ground of the future battlefields and penitentiaries of the world. Through habit man has developed the secret affection for these negative inner conversations. Through them he justifies failure, criticizes his neighbors, gloats over the distress of others, and in general pours out his venom on all. Such misuse of the Word perpetuates the violence of the world. — Neville Goddard

Just remember - when you think all is over, the future remains. — Hugh Goddard

The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple. — Donna Goddard

Photographs don't discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal. Now you see us; now you don't. It doesn't matter whether you look through a camera lens and press the shutter. It doesn't even matter whether you open your eyes or close them. The pictures are always there. And so are the people in them. — Robert Goddard

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop. — Trisha Goddard

Everyone is free to create his world as he wants it if he knows that the whole thing is responding to him. — Neville Goddard

Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world. — Neville Goddard

THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant. — Neville Goddard

Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them. — Drew Goddard

Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life ... and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive. — Robert H. Goddard

I AM (your true self) is not interested in man's opinion. All its interest lies in your conviction of yourself. What do you say of the I AM within you? Can you answer and say, "I AM Christ"? Your answer or degree of understanding will determine the place you will occupy in life. Do you say or believe yourself to be a man of a certain family, race, nation, etc.? Do you honestly believe this of yourself? Then life, your true self, will cause these conceptions to appear in your world and you will live with them as though they are real. — Neville Goddard

Your inner being is he who men call God. — Neville Goddard

When the imagination is not controlled and the attention not steadied on the feeling of the wish fulfilled, then no amount of prayer or piety or invocation will produce the desired effect. When you can call up at will whatsoever image you please, when the forms of your imagination are as vivid to you as the forms of nature, you are master of your fate. — Neville Goddard

What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world. — Neville Goddard

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that. — Drew Goddard

Whenever possible, choose peace. — Donna Goddard

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family. — Mark Goddard

The prophet said, "Be ye imitators of God as dear children." How would I imitate God? Well, we are told that God calls things that are not seen as though they were seen, and the unseen becomes seen. This is the way the girl called forth praise and kindness from her employer. She carried on an imaginary conversation with her employer from the premise that he had praised her work, and he did. — Neville Goddard

All conceptions are limitations of the conceiver. — Neville Goddard

If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner talking we build our world. Let love's lordly hand raise your hunger and thirst to all that is noble and of good report, and let your mind starve e'er you raise your hand to a cup love did not fill or a bowl love did not bless. That you may never again have to say, What have I said? What have I done, O All Powerful Human Word? — Neville Goddard

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings. — Trisha Goddard

When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes. — Drew Goddard

But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it. — Robert Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre. — Drew Goddard

I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be. — Neville Goddard

It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss. — Donna Goddard

Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between. — Donna Goddard

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable. — Paulette Goddard

The heart / That laughs must ache. — Georgiana Goddard King

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye. — Robert Goddard

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca. — Patti Smith

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things. — Mark Goddard

Love is not love if there is no beloved. — Neville Goddard

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later. — Drew Goddard

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion. — Neville Goddard

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace. — Robert H. Goddard

Nothing comes from without; all things come from within - from the subconscious — Neville Goddard

Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are. — Neville Goddard

To dare is to do ... to fear is to fail. — John Goddard

Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies — Neville Goddard

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance. — Donna Goddard

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
and watch the world play its part
relative to to its fulfillment. — Neville Goddard

I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It's also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they're about violence, they're also about sex. It's about our instincts, so in that regard, it's crucial that you honor both of those things. — Drew Goddard

It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true. — Neville Goddard

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out. — John Goddard

You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view. — Drew Goddard

Photographs were more than my livelihood. They were part of my life. The way light fell on a surface never failed to tug at my imagination. The way one picture, a single snapshot, could capture the essence of a time and place, a city, a war, a human being, was embedded in my consciousness. One day, one second, I might close the shutter on the perfect photograph. — Robert Goddard

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade. — Trisha Goddard

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden. — Donna Goddard

All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture. — Drew Goddard

Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows. — Neville Goddard

Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation. — Neville Goddard

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard

Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying. — Donna Goddard

I don't do game shows. — Trisha Goddard

If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it. — Neville Goddard

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years. — Trisha Goddard

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things. — Joe Goddard

I love cult movies. I probably have watched 'Big Trouble In Little China' more than anyone on the planet. — Drew Goddard

Whatever you desire, believe that you have received it, and you will. — Neville Goddard

of making the Grand Fleet turn away and open the range. Admiral Scheer claims that putting the van of his fleet again into action "diverted the enemy fire and rendered it possible for the torpedo-boat flotillas to take so effective a share in the proceedings," (S) but of course it is a question whether the same result might not have been obtained' by the use of the torpedo flotillas alone. In any case, it must be acknowledged that Admiral Scheer's extraordinary manoeuvres had accomplished a surprise effect upon his enemy as, besides forcing the Grand Fleet to turn away, the moral effect of this torpedo attack had a great influence upon the British conduct of the rest of the action. It is also evident that the British had not comprehended — Thomas Goddard Frothingham

Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it. — Neville Goddard

I was inspired by Maya Deren because she was the first woman filmmaker whose films I saw. I also loved Fellini and Goddard because they were so different from Hollywood films. But when I saw the cinema verite films that were made by Drew Associates with Leacock and Pennebaker I found my passion. — Chris Hegedus

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. — Bob Goddard

I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring. — Trisha Goddard

A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard

[on Paulette Goddard] It was her honesty I liked. — Veronica Lake

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. — Neville Goddard

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters! — Drew Goddard

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. — Robert H. Goddard

I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me ... — Trisha Goddard

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. — Robert H. Goddard

I try not to get too cute for cute's sake. — Drew Goddard

Do we find ourself or does our self get demolished? — Donna Goddard

The National Air and Space Museum is unlike any other place on this planet. If you're hosting visitors from another country and they want to know what single museum best captures what it is to be American, this is the museum you take them to. Here they can see the 1903 Wright Flyer, the 1927 Spirit of St. Louis, the 1926 Goddard rocket, and the Apollo 11 command module - silent beacons of exploration, of a few people willing to risk their lives for the sake of discovery. Without — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate. — Paulette Goddard

The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself. — Neville Goddard

I feel the way I always do about sequels. If there's an idea that excites me enough, and it feels like a way to do something new and fresh, then great. But I don't ever want to do a sequel just for the sake of doing a sequel. — Drew Goddard

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together. — Joe Goddard

What are you - Secret Service?'
'If I were, I wouldn't admit it.'
'And you're not admitting it, I notice. — Robert Goddard

You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be. Do not attempt this in day-dreaming or wishful thinking but in a positive manner. Claim yourself to be the thing desired. I AM that; no sacrifice, no diet, no human tricks. All that is asked of you is to accept your desire. If you dare claim it, you will express it. — Neville Goddard

Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science. — Kendrick Oliver

Maybe we can pray and God answers in ways we can't see and it doesn't all happen spontaneously. Maybe it's about the journey, too."

(Undercover Protector) — Elizabeth Goddard

Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible. — Drew Goddard