“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.” TryingActionWantedPainFeltActingStudyPlansNew YorkHeroNeededAction Heroes Author:Dolph Lundgren
“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.” ImportantGovernmentFeltEnjoyCareersCasesStudyMilitaryStudentsCollegeChosenComedianVietnamCompletingMilitary Service Book:The Truth (with jokes) Source: The Truth (with jokes)
“I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.” WritingFeltStudyDisciplineTheologyElitesBiblicalTestamentRulingNew Testament Author:N. T. Wright
“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.” MenShouldMindDifferentHomeWantedCultureAsksFeltMy OwnStudyStrangeHe ManMen And WomenMy FriendsDiscrimination Author:Malina Suliman
“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.” IfsMenFeltAttitudeStudyMinutesHe ManBoundsAfghanistanAestheticDevotedFifteenAdvertisementsCultivation Author:Burton Rascoe
“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?” KnowsMadeIdeasFeelingsArtistFeltStudySubjectsPaintingPersonalityMessagesResponseSensitivity Author:Gerald Brommer
“Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.” PeopleFeelsCoursesFeltChanceStudyGenerationsMasteryEntitledAffirming Book:In Defense of Elitism Source: In Defense of Elitism
“Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.” WorldFirstsI CanLightWantedFilmGuyFoundFeltMy OwnStudyCamerasI RealizedVideoSupposed To BeBuyingLooking BackNicheSubmergedMovie MakingGreat GuyVideo Cameras Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsFirstsLongWholeOrderThreeFeltActingStudyChangedMaterialsApproachLong TimeGet BetterTake MeNever Change Author:Kevin Costner
“I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?” FeltStudyShotsHardestBowsQuarrelsLoadedAmmunition Author:Rachel Hartman
“In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.” ChildrenEnoughFoundFeltParentStudyEnough TimeParent Child Author:Ellen Galinsky
“I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.” MotivationalWantedSchoolFeltClassStudyCollegeFitMediumsPrincipalAdmissionHindiClasses In School Author:Lakshmi Mittal
“I always felt like I was challenged, I was never satisfied, and I looked forward to the challenge. From studying high school players to studying kids in college, I always studied the competition, at my position in particular, to make sure I set the standard.” KidsSchoolFeltChallengesStudyPlayerPositionCollegeParticularStandardsHigh SchoolCompetitionSatisfied Author:Derrick Brooks
“There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.” PeopleWayYearsDoneSchoolThreeFeltStudyFourNeededProjectsFour YearsGoing Back To School Author:Chika Anadu
“I recently found myself going through a period of uncertainty about my future as a performer, my status as a personality, the believability of my Christian witness and the knowledge of God's will in my life. I felt a force bigger than myself saying, 'Lay back. Take it easy. Study hard. Read your bible. Think, write and keep your mouth shut for awhile.'” ThinkingWritingHardChristianFoundForceFeltEasyStudyPersonalityPeriodsMouthsBiggerLaysGods WillWitnessUncertaintyPerformersMy FutureKnowledge Of GodTake It EasyBelievability Author:Johnny Cash
“I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view it as something that I would want to do. But I got fired as a secretary, and then I started studying, I started doing it just to earn money. And it took me a long time to learn to love it. And what I loved was telling a story. I tried to avoid making plays or films that weren't telling a story that I felt was important. I discovered in the process that it makes you more empathic because you have to enter someone else's reality and learn to see through many other people's eyes.” PeopleWantLongImportantPlayStoriesHomeRealityEyeWantedFilmJoyActorsFeltProcessViewsStudyDadLong TimeMy DadSecretary Author:Jane Fonda
“One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.” MenFirstsArtCoursesLiteratureLanguageFeltStudyWonderfulEventsTrainingFilledMeetingsAccomplishedAmazementGreat EventsWonderful ManLiterature And Art Author:Nikola Tesla
“I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.” MightFeltStudyBusiness Success Author:Warren Buffett