"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

Life, Fear, Choices, Cynicism

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Born, Win, Destiny, Success

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Bliss, Love, People, Unconditional

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

Explore more quotes by Ken Burns

"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it."

Music, Play

"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."

Music, Composers, Facts, Research

"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."

Family, Daughter, Children, Film, First

"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."

Society, America, Jazz

"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice."

Lifestyle, Jazz, Justice, Years

"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

Lifestyle, Jazz

"I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now."

History, Now

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

Identity, Americans, Film, Sense

"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."

Focus, Heroes

"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."

Money,