Jane Campion Quotes

I take pride in the fact that I can walk away from things. My willingness to walk away has protected me, I realize that now. Being able to walk away from sessions, from poetry, from dreams of being a poetry professor.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Even though there will be times when I'll need to protect myself - there will definitely be times when I'll have to put up my guard just to monitor what comes in and out of my life - there's a grace there... no pun intended!

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I try not to be overly analytical.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.