Childlike Quotes - Page 8

• Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike.

  Michael Jackson

  Children

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• Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.

  Alain de Botton

  Religious, Atheist, Journey

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• There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is nothing of Rembrandt in his pictures.

  Yaacov Agam

  Gay, Trying, Friendly

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• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals.

  Derek Jarman

  Christian, Men, Epidemics

  Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• In a recent dream, God revealed to me a door leading us into four new hopes that will prepare us to be like those who were healed and strengthened in hope and able to stand when the lightning bolt hit. We deal with these fissures of hopelessness by stepping into these new hopes. The four new hopes that I saw the Lord giving us in this time are: Hope for the Unseen, Hope Against Hope, Carefree Hope, and Childlike Hope.

  Bob Hartley

  Dream, Doors, Giving

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• I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me.

  George Carlin

  Sweet, Lying, Innocent

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr.7, July 2001.

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• Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

  Alan Rickman

  Eye, Play, Mad

  "Alan Rickman: The Empire Interview". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.empireonline.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

  Kanye West

  Creativity, Eye, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Omnipotence, Lord, Burden

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• 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.

  Michael Gambon

  Children, Cowboy, Thinking

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• When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.

  Patton Oswalt

  Kids, Reality, Support Systems

  "Patton Oswalt on his most memorable roles and giving life advice to Dane Cook". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I want to bring that childlike approach every night - just go out there and have fun. I want to play like a kid, for fun but with intensity. Play to win.

  Chris Bosh

  Fun, Kids, Winning

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• [T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Character, Men, Hands

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• The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

  Andy Warhol

  Self, Despair, Skins

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

  Simon Sinek

  Opposites, People, Curiosity

  "Remember Why You Started: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Vivid Imagination, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Art, Expression, Play

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• Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life.

  Samuel Ullman

  Sweet, Stars, Heart

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Travel, Memorable

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Fundamentals, Politician

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• My voice in combination with the harp - which, by the way, I use because I've played it my entire life, not to make some statement about the harp - somehow has ... coloured people's interpretations of the music and projected an idea of childlike or fairytale quality or innocence. Which sometimes prevents people from listening to the songs the way I would like them to be listened to.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Ideas, Voice

  Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2005.

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• There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Betrayal, War, Heart

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 22, 2015

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• Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Grace, Way

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• I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

  Brian Baumgartner

  Enjoy Life, Enthusiasm, Sometimes

  "Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) Accounts for The Office's Success". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. February 1, 2007.

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