Childlike Quotes

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts. John Tavener
Beautiful Music Art Simple Innocence Extraordinarily Flute Find Indian See Primordial Most Particularly Talk Traditional Hear Been Texts Very American Childlike Interested Icons Nay Sufi
Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness. Katherine Waterston
Time You Sense Imagination Films Embrace Most Obviously Doing Wonder Childlike Your Actor
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness. Kenneth Branagh
Best Quality Lose Think Ability Some Silliness Sort Still Childlike Themselves Actor
Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself. Laurence Fishburne
You Yourself Free Well Childlike Order Act Acting Thing
I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm not self-conscious; I'm not worried about what the outcome is going to be. I'm just having fun. Lisa Hanawalt
Art Time Think State Worried Outcome About Having Having Fun Self-Conscious Making Lot Get Trying Going Just Childlike Where Fun Play
The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways. Mary Steenburgen
Work Funny Time Think Our Spend Ways Kids About Something Small Almost Talk Mostly Talking Very Childlike Happened Grandkids Many Ted Careers
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
People Sharks Ocean Grass Tree Unlike Kids Pretend Would Never Share Like Perhaps Sort Island Still Climb Leaves Were Stopped Childlike Fantasies Really Used Many Things Below Imagine
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me. Orhan Pamuk
Nature Me People Diplomat About Voice Self-Conscious Look Sort Makes Child Representative Being Childlike Want Which Again Turkey Playful
I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder. Rolf Harris
Tried Retain Always Wonder Childlike
I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like. Ron Ben-Israel
Crazy Nuts Cakes Like Candy Childlike
I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated. Shawn Levy
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Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete. Steve Jurvetson
Old Mind Spent Some Tend Entrepreneurs Naivete Know Doing Years Truly Trusted Very Often Childlike Original Thinkers
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. Tim Vine
You Writing Important Older Able Access Comic Still Get Childlike Sensible Thing
It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective. Timothy Olyphant
You Learning Perspective Rare Long Constantly Almost Feel Like Still Coming Very Childlike Career
He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it. Tom Kenny
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To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. Tom Shadyac
Me Sacred Because Any Done Ace Childlike Movie Ever
Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing. Nish Kumar
Good Unions Add Air About Only Good Thing Ceaseless Wonder Childlike Anything Conversations Whimsical Grind Customs Brexit Thing
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