Chaim Potok Quotes

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in preproduction or in production or postproduction - the behavioral chess. That is, learning and being humbled by and also teaching certain people certain things. I love that. As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

Experience comes in two different flavors: your own and the experience of others. Most people can learn from their own experiences quite well, but many people simply ignore the experiences and lessons of others.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

I like to make use of what I know

I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

The ability to play with different people is infinitely fascinating to me.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.