Tom Shadyac Quotes

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Years, Law

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• I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

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  Essence, Divine

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• 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.

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  Apples, Tree, Sowing

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• I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

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  Powerful, People, Creative

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• The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

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  Technology, Principles, Development

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• 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.

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  Moving, Circles, World

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• Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.

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  Mean, Authenticity, Self Awareness

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• 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.

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  Successful, Simplicity, Tree

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• 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.

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  School, Kids, Order

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• What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

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  What Matters, Who We Are, Matter

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• I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

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  Kindness, Thinking, Community

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Love Is, And Love

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• We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

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  Asking, World, Discovering

  "Super Soul Sunday: Becoming More Self-Aware ", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Guy, Comment, Ifs

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• Theres one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law thats evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.

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  Years, Law, Needs

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• Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.

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  Running, Stars, Love Is

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• The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them.

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  Spiritual, Talking, Trying

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• Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

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  Done, Might, Belief

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• You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.

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  Ideas, Energy, Messages

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• The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.

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  Action, Transformation, Deeper

  "It’s Time to Shift Into Your Heart-Gear" by Carolyn Ziel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

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  Beautiful, Looks, Stories

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• We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.

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  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

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  Needs

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• 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.

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  Simple, Incredibles, Cooperatives

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

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  Moving, Heart, Attention

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