Sometimes listening by itself may not be enough; some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! - William James
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. - William James
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. - W. Clement Stone
When you know exactly what you want, then you will appreciate it more when you experience it. - Marshall Sylver
The subconscious mind takes your fears as a request, proceeds to manifest them, and brings them into your experience. - Joseph Murphy
Life is either a great experience, or a small one, dependent on the quality and character of the thoughts we think. - Norman Vincent Peale
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war. - Naomi Wolf
Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it. - Robert DeNiro
Even I like to go to certain restaurants and places where you have to wear a jacket, a suit and a tie, and I like that sort of old world style. I am sure it will come back in many ways, if it hasn't already. It's kind of nice and it breaks it up. - Robert DeNiro
Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city - Robert DeNiro
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong. - Robert DeNiro
I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little. - Robert DeNiro
I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there. - Robert DeNiro
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