Quotes About Acceptance

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay.

I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and being more engaged in the process of my life.

I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will not. It's the life you chose, so live with it and don't complain.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

There are still people who don't like my work and that's okay with me.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got.

Never say never. At least with working out I'm proving you don't need to. If I have three chins at 75 I'm not saying I wouldn't get rid of them, but who knows. Generally, I'd leave it alone.

Let the boat work - and not me!

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

To make a relationship work, focus on what you appreciate about the other person, and not your complaints.

Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.