Hy Gardner Quotes

What I'd really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it.

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.

All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I'm through.

It can be done, but you have to make it happen.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

Love your enemies and drive them nuts.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong

You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.

I am deeply superficial.

The witches do not know the origin of their cult.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.