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“I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Film Passion Careers First Time Childlike Avant Garde

Author:Alan J. Pakula

“It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the child inside us. We often fear that people won't take us seriously, or that they won't think us qualified enough. For the sake of being accepted, we can forget our source and put on one of the rigid masks of professionalism or conformity that society is continually offering us. The childlike part of us is the part that, like the Fool, simply does and says, without needing to qualify himself or strut his credentials.”

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.”

Giving Shows Loses Wonder Hard Work Gratitude Giving Up Harder Complaining Thank You Never Giving Up Work Harder Childlike Childlike Wonder Showing Gratitude

Author:Randy Pausch

“It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.”

Ifs Mean Facts Safe Smart Profession Theatre Making Money Innocence Make Sense Logical Childlike

Author:Santino Fontana

“He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.”

Believe Children Doe Action Spiritual Science Struggle Ultimate Remains Atheist Bread Significance Agnostic Childlike

Book:Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.”

Needs Should Soul Hard Seems Might Religious Views Christianity Journey Atheist Core Vulnerable Realms Relevant Secular Nurture Provocative Childlike Thesis Discredit Journey Through Life

Author:Alain de Botton

“Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.”

Writing Wanted Figures Return Bitter Exhausted Childlike Public Figures

Author:David Leavitt

“I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.”

World Children Artist Dies Energy Levels Expression Circumstances Determination Maturity Excitement Outlets Childlike Navigate Maturity Level

Author:Kurt Sutter

“The great person never loses a childlike spirit.”

Persons Spirit Loses Attitude Childlike Great Person

Author:Mencius

“Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.”

Writing Process Wonder Discovery Surprise Writing Process Childlike Sense Of Wonder

Author:Charles Ghigna

“Keep the childlike vision and remain true to your ideas.”

Ideas Vision Childlike

Author:Wolf Kahn

“We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.”

People Giving Should Humans Enough Divine Credit Foolish Guidance Trust In God Equipment Childlike Human Wisdom Divine Guidance

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.”

Feels Art Stills Book Joy Fun Challenges Differences Childhood Offers Intrigue Childlike Treasured

Author:Graeme Base

“My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.”

Two Play Realizing Numbers Design Activity Definitions Gambling Endeavor Engaging Dictionary Childlike

Author:Paula Scher

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.”

People Fascination Childlike Childishness

Author:Jim Rohn

“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”

Want Home Joy Tree Achieve Our Thoughts Childlike Brevity Incomparable Forests And Trees Quickness Longing For Home

Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing.”

“I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary school, I in fact became less grown-up. And then as the years passed, I turned into quite a childlike person. I suppose I just wasn't able to ally myself with time.”

Years Persons Stills Facts Hands Might Able School Adults Primaries Allies Childlike Primary School Secondary School

Author:Hiromi

“Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...”

Ifs Bigs Eye Stars Hurt Taken Fire Hair Arms Skins Brown Throat Delicate Veins Violet Prey Malice Kitten Childlike Lashes Strawberries Sideways Airy Estuaries Fjords

Book:Nightfall

Source: Nightfall

“One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.”

Trying Book Minutes My Friends Excited Characteristics Cherish Childlike Gullibility

Author:Phil Foglio

“The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .”

Self Despair Skins Bones Rooted Pale Glamour Childlike Sinister Auras Gum Admiring Chewing Carelessness Otherness Naivete Skin And Bones

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.”

Ifs Writing Stills Important Able Access Comic Sensible Childlike

Author:Tim Vine

“At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.”

Wells Lying Fantasy Roots Filled Curiosity Feminine Worldview Manufacturing Shyness Childlike Delicacy

Author:Morinosuke Kawaguchi

“Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.”

Believe Spirit I Believe Surrender Discipleship Defining Childlike

Author:Brennan Manning

“Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.”

States Meditation Magic Pure Miracle Innocent Childlike

Author:Rajneesh

“Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.”

Children Made Stills Waiting Realizing Pleasure Education Doors Tree Society Ready Adults Surprise Childlike Christmas Tree

Author:Karl Kraus

“Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Littles Spirit Prayer Grace Praying Each Day Childlike Deep Things

Author:Ole Hallesby

“The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.”

Source: At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament

“The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.”

Thinking Stills Actors Loses Ability Quality Childlike Silliness

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.”

Sometimes Enjoy Pleasure Enthusiasm Enjoy Life Childlike Childish Things

Author:Brian Baumgartner

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