Sowing Quotes

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

(12/18/03, about the scene in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) in which Sam helps Frodo up Mount Doom) It was an incredible acting experience, being on the side of a volcano with that language. That language is so beautiful: "It`ll be springtime soon, and they`ll be sowing barley on the fields." When Peter (Peter Jackson) came up to tell me to lower my arm, something like that, tears were streaming down his face, and to see him that emotional just forced me into it . . . It (finally seeing the last three reels of the film) was a huge cry. It was all of the tension and stress and pressure of having a wife and children, having a career, the investment of these movies. I was sobbing and heaving, I could barely breathe, and the movie facilitated that. It was just a huge release.

Today, as bond buyers search in this period of very low interest rates and tight credit spreads for every additional basis point of yield they can find, market participants seem to be ignoring the lessons that were learned in prior bust periods, ... By ignoring those hard learned and expensive lessons, such investors are sowing the seeds of future defaults.

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today`s actions to tomorrow`s results. There`s a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The government is sowing the seeds of division in society. Those in power want us to struggle with one another, but not against them.