I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

—Samuel Goldwyn

About Samuel Goldwyn

Portrait of Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn ( GOHLD-win; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: שמואל געלבפֿיש; July 1879 or 1882 – January 31, 1974) was a Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced the United States's first major motion picture. He was best known for being the founding contributor and...

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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

—Samuel Goldwyn

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

—Samuel Goldwyn

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

—Samuel Goldwyn

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

—Samuel Goldwyn

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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Isn't it nice… once you've outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do

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When ideas go unexamined and unchallenged for a long enough time, certain things happen. They become mythological, and they become very, very powerful. They create conformity. They intimidate.

—E. L. Doctorow

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And this is the simple truth—that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

—Mortimer Adler

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