Ed Harris Quotes
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
It's probably a bad indicator of your lifestyle when you miss your ex-boyfriend because he's absolutely lethal.
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.
It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
The sooner you step away from your comfort zone, the sooner you'll realize that it wasn't really all that comfortable.
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.
Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.
God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.
Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.