Ridley Scott Quotes

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

Don't get too attached to anything.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

No man can lose what he never had.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

I don't get hung up about anything really.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

Whatever's in front of you, you do the best you can and let it land where it lands, and then you walk away.

Don't live and die with every play.

Don't get attached to any one idea. Nothing is too precious.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'

I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you'll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don't use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.