Yielding Quotes

In theatre, there`s the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it`s the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. It`s been amazing for me to see the self-confidence of actors who insist on having control, because it`s going to be their faces 20ft high in the posters. I`ve been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It`s all about yielding. It`s an oddly submissive relationship in which you`re moulded, Pygmalion-style.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.