Adam Pally Quotes

I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

I want to challenge myself as an actor.

I want to be inspired, and I want to hopefully do work that moves people as well.

I have always tried to put content in my work. It is a consistent challenge.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

Most actors try to do as many different things as possible. I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance. And you have to keep tapping new parts of yourself, keep working or you never improve. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

I think there was a point that I realized I could do what I wanted to do in terms of the drawing. I used to run around a lot of things. I would shy away from certain things that I realized would be horrible for me to draw, and just wouldn't be fun.

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.