S.R. Ford Quotes

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.

The essence of cinema is editing.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.

Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Art depends on luck and talent.

What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Life flows.

There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

We must be willing to take an honest look at ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is here that we will have a life-altering shift in perception, an opening of our heart.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

Do I think Donald Trump can run the country a lot better and get along with other countries like Russia? Absolutely he can do a better job. He can create a stimulus. He can lower taxes.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.