A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
It has been more than 31 years for me in the cinema industry but I am still learning and my motto is the same as that of late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs – Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!
Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There’s not a lot of love going around.
What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Imagine how foolish you’d look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines – and so can you.
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest.
I’ve never really lived a conventional life, so I think it’s quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
A lot of intelligent women make foolish choices.
As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do – don’t give up.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.
I’ve made stupid investments. I’ve made stupid decisions as an employee. I’ve made foolish decisions as a manager. I’ve gotten fired. I’ve lost businesses. I went through all of those things.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
I’m one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren’t behind us. They’re actually ahead of us.
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.
I am aware of the depths of heartache I’m experiencing but also how foolish it is to think that the things we have are permanent. They’re not.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Whether such socialism is foolish naivety or heroic idealism is a matter of opinion, but what is certain is that, however many CDs are sold or tours sold out, the sound waves themselves are free.
Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
There is no comparison between the two of them. The debate will always be there and you have to respect Cristiano. It would be foolish not to respect him. He is a great player. But whoever likes football will think Leo is the best.
I have no qualms with people who want to be vegetarians; it’s just foolish. They are missing out on the best things in life: meat, cheese, proper Christmas pudding.
This ideal of the Socratic academy is so reasonable that it may seem foolish to quibble with it. Of course, students should engage with ideas that they disagree with rather than silencing anything that challenges their worldview.
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it’s up to them to make that foolish decision. But there’s absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
David Cameron’s approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you’re confronted by the police, very few – either the foolish or the very brave – will refuse consent when confronted by the police.
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.
You can’t afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
In investing, you get what you don’t pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, and they will stay the course. And they won’t be foolish enough to think that they can consistently outsmart the market.
I had never done TV. I think it’s a foolish medium for, most rock ‘n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn’t want to do it anymore is foolish!
I think it’s my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I’ve learned from the actors I’ve worked with is you don’t get something for nothing. If you don’t risk looking foolish, you’ll never do anything special.
Maybe Drudge is more entertainer than reporter. I imagine he enjoys baiting the mainstream media, then watching it look foolish when his story is debunked.
I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
It is not necessary to agree with the Arab point of view about their own history, but it is foolish to ignore it.
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
