Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.
There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.
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