Steve Martin on greatness
Steve Martin59 quotes“The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.”
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I love money. I love everything about it.
Steve MartinSteve Martin I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Steve MartinSteve Martin No art comes from the conscious mind.
Steve MartinSteve Martin There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
Steve MartinSteve Martin The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
Steve MartinSteve Martin A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Steve MartinSteve Martin Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Steve MartinSteve Martin I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
Steve MartinSteve Martin It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
Steve MartinSteve Martin You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
Steve MartinSteve Martin Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
Steve MartinSteve Martin The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
Steve MartinSteve Martin I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
Steve MartinSteve Martin Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
Steve MartinSteve Martin You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
Steve MartinSteve Martin Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
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Cillian MurphyCillian Murphy You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.
Rick WarrenRick Warren We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke
