Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
Interpretation
Regrets prevent you from fully engaging with the present and moving forward in life.
This quote emphasizes the futility of dwelling on past mistakes or regrets, suggesting that doing so only hinders one's ability to enjoy and live in the present moment. Federico Fellini highlights the importance of letting go of past grievances to embrace life as it is now, advocating for a forward-looking mindset.
In practice
Using this quote during a self-improvement seminar to encourage attendees to focus on the future rather than dwelling on mistakes.
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.
Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Expressing thankfulness in advance is the way of all Masters. So do not wait for a thing to happen and then give thanks. Give thanks before it happens, and watch energies swirl! To thank God before something occurs is an act of extraordinary faith. And that, of course, is where the power comes from.
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