Chuck Connors Quotes

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.