People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Martin ScorseseRead
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Interpretation
Disappointment can be transformed into a source of renewal and strength.
In this quote, Martin Scorsese suggests that while disappointment is often perceived as a negative experience, it can actually serve a transformative purpose. By facing and embracing disappointment, individuals may find the opportunity to rejuvenate themselves, gain new insights, and emerge stronger and more motivated than before.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience in the face of failure.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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