John Sweeney Quotes

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas.

Every human being needs to feel safe and secure in their life.

It's interesting to go places and see that, at the end of the day, people just want to feel safe, and what that looks like to them varies... but that was encouraging to see that there is more common ground than perhaps I realized.

It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.

Love for me is comfort. I feel most loved and most capable of giving love when I am around people or in places that make me comfortable.

The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people. If they're scared or nervous, then they shut off and nobody's ideas [count].

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You do your best work when you feel safe.

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

It is important for me to feel at home.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Home is important. Its important to have a home.

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

It feels good to know that I am safe and I am loved.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original.

We wouldn't survive if people didn't trust us.

"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.