Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George LucasRead
If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.
Interpretation
Perseverance and passion are crucial for achieving success in any field.
In this quote, George Lucas emphasizes the importance of perseverance and passion in the pursuit of success. He suggests that to achieve greatness in any endeavor, individuals must not only remain determined and resilient in the face of challenges but also find a deep-seated love for what they do, as this will provide motivation and fuel the necessary commitment over time.
In practice
During a motivational speech for students about career choices.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.
The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.
In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?
Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.
If I had been playing for money I would have complained a long time ago that I was underpaid.
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