Tom Shadyac Quotes
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.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.
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.
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.
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.
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.
Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.
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.
Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.
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.
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: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.
The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.
I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.
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.