Kofi Annan Quotes

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

Emotion works against you. The less emotion, the more you use your brain and fight smart.

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

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I am very practical. It's not like I will fall in love with someone standing far away.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

I've learned that showing your emotions can work against you and that you need to have a business-like attitude to observe things with a cool head.