Leonard Nimoy Quotes

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

I've learned to never take anything for granted and that people are all works in progress. Some people are just actively working on progressing, and some aren't.

I want to be well enough to enjoy the things I've made.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.

I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.