Enthusiasm Quotes
Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.
Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?
What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?
A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.
My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.
a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.
The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.
It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.
Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.
He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.
A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.
...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...
Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.
...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?
Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.
The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.
Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.
A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.
Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.
Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.
Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.
Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.
Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.
...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,
Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.
...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...
Every year as you grow older it is your duty to add more years of wisdom. This wisdom may come in many ways. Use it to the best of your abilities
The wise learn from their own mistakes, the smart from others mistake, but the great learn from others people's success. What are you?
Survivors and prevailers are those who love themselves above failure and everything else except the abstract and mysterious.
It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?
No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence...
A woman’s love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated.
...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.
Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.
The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.
Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.
True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.
Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.
Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.