Tom Shadyac
I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.Collection: Success
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.Collection: Technology
I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
I've never been a Hollywood dropout.
The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.
You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.
We are what make up society.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.
There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.
I think laughter is a sacred act.
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
I've been called crazy many times before.
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
Definition is the death of discovery.
Technology is not good, it's neutral.
I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.Collection: Cancer
I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.Collection: Essence
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.Collection: Technology
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.Collection: Moving
Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.Collection: Mean
Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.Collection: Successful
Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it.Collection: School
What matters is who we are, not who we beat.Collection: What Matters
Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.Collection: Sweet
We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.Collection: Asking
In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.Collection: Guy