Constantin Stanislavski Quotes

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Words and ideas work in the short run to get you through school and to impress educators and employers. But they do not work in the long run or in the deep run. We soon find ourselves separate and without wonder.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm interested in exploring that in myself. I try to be honest with myself about everything that I feel. I'm not saying I'm able to do that all the time, but it's something I'm interested in.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

Writing makes you more human.