People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Martin ScorseseRead
There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.
Interpretation
Disappointment can be transformed into a source of renewal and strength.
In this quote, Martin Scorsese suggests that while disappointment is often perceived as a negative experience, it can actually serve a transformative purpose. By facing and embracing disappointment, individuals may find the opportunity to rejuvenate themselves, gain new insights, and emerge stronger and more motivated than before.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience in the face of failure.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.
The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.
You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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