Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

To move past fear is a cliche.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make.

I don't like looking back.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

I don't much like looking back.

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I believe that there are moments in everyone's lives where a door flings open, and if you're terrified of what's on the other side, you must walk through it.

I don't really look into the past too much.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

I always want to take on the giants.

I don't like to look too far back into the past.