Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

It is a big mistake to think that the best way to express yourself is to do whatever you want, acting as you please. This is not expressing yourself. If you know what to do exactly, and you do it, then you can express yourself fully.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.

It's just like Yeats said. In dreams begin responsibilities. Flip this around and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

If we are silent when we should speak, we are not living the Discipline of silence. If we speak when we should be silent, we again miss the mark.

You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

Temperance is love in training.

When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.