“For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.” MomentsActionFilmActorsReturnPerformancesAwkwardAction Films Author:Gore Verbinski
“The moment we find the reason behind an emotion the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.” ReasonMomentsAsksMemoriesAnswersPayEmotionBehindsWallReturnPainfulQuestioning Author:Gloria Steinem
“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.” IfsTryingMomentsActionCreativeReturnIntelligentStrategyAlternativesConsideringBad TimesReceptiveCreativity And InnovationTimelinessTakeoff Author:John Cleese
“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.” SelfMomentsIndividualObjectsProduceReturnProductionsProductiveConsumptionConsumingReproducing Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.” MeanEndsMomentsForgetMoralReturnOughtEternalCaughtDoctrineMotivatedCaught UpMoments Of Life Author:Georges Bataille
“If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.” IfsTryingLongHas BeensMomentsRememberLyingNamesGoneReturnPressesFamiliarInstantBreastsForgivenStrokesBetrayed Author:Roger Zelazny
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.” MenGivingMayMomentsPassionNextHouseForceForgetBehindsFireToo MuchDoorsDangerReturnGiving UpOvercomingFlamesNeglectedInferno Author:Carl Jung
“The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in enforcing good behavior on primitive peoples, their association is now counterproductive. Yet at the very moment when they should be decoupled, sanctimonious nitwits are calling for a return to morals based on superstition.” ShouldMayHas BeensMomentsMoralMankindReturnMoralityCallingBehaviorTragedyValuableAssociationSuperstitionsPrimitiveCounterproductiveGood BehaviorSanctimoniousHijacking Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.” KnowsFeelsBelieveHumansStatesMomentsPracticeReturnPeriodsEnlightenmentUniversalConstantAccessClaritySensitiveAwakeConfusedBeing HumanNumbMoments Of Clarity Author:Mark Nepo
“Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.” WorldYearsHumansHas BeensWarEndsMomentsHoursMy OwnDealsConditionsChangedTaughtReturnOrdinaryPrisonCleanScalesWar Of The WorldsGatesWorld War IiHolocaustHuman ConditionWorld War IMottoLifelongInfamousDachau Author:Martha Gellhorn
“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.” IfsWayKindHas BeensSometimesMomentsShowsSpiritualLyingValuesFallRolesVirtueSecurityReturnCrisisNostalgiaCertaintyComplexityPrivate LifeFall BackPresumptionInsufficientRegressionSpiritual CrisisOld Values Book:What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life