Robert Duvall Quotes

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Sometimes I'll let little things get to me. Or I'll make a big deal out of little things.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.

What man can imagine, man can do.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

Of a little thing a little displeaseth.

Little things are great to little men.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything.

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.