I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
Judi DenchRead
I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
Interpretation
Life presents unexpected challenges, and collaboration can help navigate them.
Judi Dench's quote emphasizes the unpredictability of life and the surprises that can disrupt our plans. It highlights the importance of working with experienced individuals, like directors, who can guide us through these challenges and help us manage the unexpected moments that arise.
In practice
During a motivational speech about working together in a team.
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.
I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.
Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.
Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. Let's say you train your biceps, blood is rushing in to your muscles and that's what we call the pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling like your skin is going to explode any minute and its really tight and its like someone is blowing air into your muscle and it just blows up and it feels different, it feels fantastic.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
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