Scott Spradlin Quotes

Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your identity as a professional, even the pressures of the culture of mastery that expects you to heal your clients without fail. Never mind all of the variables over which you have no control, it is up to you, according to the canons of mastery, to control the health and well-being of those for whom you provide professional care. This potentiates a furthering alienation between you and your clients. You are at risk to become, if you have not already, the one who does to your clients; to be the one the active subject acting upon the passive and receptive objects, your clients; to be the one in possession of special knowledge, technique and mastery. All of this conspires to coax or coerce you into treating your client as reduced, a mere case. Unawareness to these influences gives you little chance to consider their influence on your practice in the clinical setting, much less give attentive efforts to resist or change them. ~ Scott E. Spradlin

My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more. ~ Scott Ellis

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents ... When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold. ~ M. Scott Peck

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through. ~ Tony Scott

Urging others to read F. Scott Fitzgerald, if not a reactionary act, was not something one could do in 1968. ~ Haruki Murakami

He knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all. ~ R. Scott Bakker

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.
Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. ~ Orson Scott Card

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. ~ M. Scott Peck

He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these had been his ingredients when he entered St. Regis'. But the Minneapolis years were not a thick enough overlay to conceal the "Amory plus Beatrice" from the ferreting eyes of a boarding school, so St. Regis' had very painfully drilled Beatrice out of him and begun to lay down new and more conventional planking on the fundamental Amory. But both St. Regis' and Amory were unconscious of the fact that this fundamental Amory had not in himself changed. Those qualities for which he had suffered: his moodiness, his tendency to pose, his laziness, and his love of playing the fool, were now taken as a matter of course, recognized eccentricities in a star quarter-back, a clever actor, and the editor of the "St. Regis' Tattler"; it puzzled him to see impressionable small boys imitating the very vanities that had not long ago been contemptible weaknesses. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I nursed that flame as if it were my only son, and all round the ram nineteen other men did likewise. ~ M.C. Scott

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try. ~ Orson Scott Card

I have a healthy competitive nature. ~ Ridley Scott

In Britain, chinoiserie was eclipsed by the medievalism of Sir Walter Scott and the Gothic Revival, while in Europe japonisme would be chinoiserie's successor. Japonisme never compelled the general middle-class British taste as did the indigenous medieval style. Nonetheless, through extensive importations to Britain of Japanese art and artifacts, notably by the shop Liberty's of London, as well as through the artists James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the architect E.W. Godwin, and the writer Oscar Wilde, the Japanese style of decoration was known in Britain well before 1894. ~ Linda Gertner Zatlin

There's a method aspect to Campbell Scott character and he really wants to get into his character and he wants to cast to go on a fast so that by the time the play opens nobody's eaten in three days because he wants the audience to feel the pain from the stage. ~ Denis Leary

Granny said tardiness was nothing but bad manners, and that people with bad manners lacked character. Erlene ~ Scott Pratt

MOST THINGS DON'T HAPPEN ~ Scott Westerfeld

The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing. ~ W. Scott Lineberry

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it! ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better - to improve on the ideas of others. ~ Scott Douglas

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life. ~ Scott Greenstein

I saw you flirting and sharing with those girls out there, and I'm telling you now, I don't share. No one else gets to see this. No one else gets to touch it. No one else gets to taste it. Just me. ~ R.J. Scott

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane. ~ Orson Scott Card

We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused. ~ M. Scott Peck

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep? ~ Scott Lynch

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises ~ Gil Scott-Heron

I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak. ~ Orson Scott Card

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

When we open ourselves up to feeling, we can't only open ourselves up to feeling certain things. The same is true when we shut ourselves down. The walls that guard against sadness also guard against happiness. ~ Scott Stabile

Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I. ~ Scott Weiland

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino, ~ Jeremy Scott

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven. ~ Scott Hahn

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

I love you, and I know you love me too.
I'm just not sure that's enough anymore.
Don't we both deserve more than this struggle? ~ Scott Stabile

Fuck he was beautiful, inside and out, and he would never be mine. That information sat sure and safe inside of me, turning me to stone because it was utterly undeniable. But I was still expected to stay here, be with him, and support him, the job I both did and didn't want with all of my heart. ~ Kylie Scott

For a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education. ~ Scott Banister