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10 thoughtful quotes by tom cruise

• Awards are wonderful. I’ve been nominated many times and I’ve won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn’t, it’s still been a blast.
• I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there’s great benefits that can help an individual in society at large.
• I’ve had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary….I was very frustrated.
• Where do I get my seriousness? You can’t help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she’s making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
• But I think also you look at Scientology it is the fastest growing religion. It’s helped so many people.
• Here’s how I’ve lived my life: I’ve never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.
• I have cooked turkeys in my day but when Mom`s around I let her do it.
• I don’t care if you print something nasty about me. If it’s true, fine. I don’t care. But just make sure it’s the truth.
• When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
• I’ve learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
• Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
• Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
• The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.
• Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
• The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
• Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
• It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

• Every no gets me closer to a yes.
• It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.
• It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to out work and out learn everyone. And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time.
• It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers’ shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
• Treat your customers like they own you – because they do.
• What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it’s not the person who can talk someone into anything. It’s not the hustler who is a smooth talker. The best salespeople are the ones who put themselves in their customer’s shoes and provide a solution that makes the customer happy.
• Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you.
• I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
• In sports, the only thing a player can truly control is effort. The same applies to business. The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.
• What I’ve learned is that if you really want to be successful at something, you’ll find that you put the time in. You won’t just ask somebody if it’s a good idea, you’ll go figure out if it’s a good idea.

• Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
• The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
• To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.
• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
• Love is a beautiful image, imagined or seen within the heart; the friend of virtue and gentility.
• Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
• An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
• The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
• It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

• Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
• Selfish is caring for ourselves at others’ expense … Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
• There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
• Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.
• Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.
• To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
• What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
• The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.
• When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
• Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
• Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

• Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it’s being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don’t they?
• There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don’t know what I am talking about.
• I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.
• For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It’s a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It’s the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
• A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
• I’m very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There’s nothing so beautiful.
• Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
• There’s no subtext in Harry Potter really; it’s all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it’s a magic spell. It’s quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.
• Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
• I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I’d rather get parts I can’t play.

• You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn’t understand.
• Mass appreciation doesnt always equate to something good.
• I’m not afraid to play the role of Christian Grey. Because I’m not like him. But I perfectly understand him. I never thought that he was a monster. He is simply woven from desires. As every one of us.
• I’m a feminist at heart, and I’m totally aware of why people have an issue with this show.
• I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.
• I think you only watch stuff you’ve done once because I don’t think it’s that beneficial to you. I think it’s important to sometimes be like, ‘What’s that thing I’m doing with my face? I didn’t think I was doing that.’
• I don’t have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there’s directors that I’m desperate to work with that haven’t even made a movie yet, probably.
• It’s not like I cleaned up with girls. I always looked young and I was very small; I hated being ‘cute.’
• It’s a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.
• Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they’ve been around for a long time.

• It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that.
• The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.
• Yes, I know it’s easy to make fun of the organised churches, but has it occurred to anyone to wonder why it’s so easy?
• British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists.
• One minute, I was saying, “Hello, Mr. Bunny!” and smiling at its sweet little face and funny floppy ears. The next, the fucker savaged me.
• One of our professors described a lecture as ‘a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either’.
• The French have so many civil wars, they can win one now and again.
• Only a few things in life matter a little. The rest don’t matter at all.
• The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
• This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

• Power is always a corrupting influence.
• You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.
• My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.
• I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
• If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I’ve been in the world, there’d be a lot of little flags.
• People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I’m as common as muck.
• Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you’ve written and every conclusion you’ve come to.
• I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang ‘I’ll See You In My Dreams,’ and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
• We had five goats, two dogs, a cat and racks of commentaries on Shakespeare.
• Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.