“Directing takes more courage than acting.”

— Moon So-ri

As quoted in "Moon So-ri interview: “I wasn’t relaxed enough for us to improvise!”" in Eastern Kicks (6 June 2018) https://www.easternkicks.com/features/moon-so-ri-interview-2

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South Korean actress 1974

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1998

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

E. F. Schumacher (1911–1977) British economist

"Small is Beautiful", an essay, in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5 (August 1973), p. 22 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106019678082;view=1up;seq=230

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Actually written by E. F. Schumacher in a 1973 essay titled "Small is Beautiful" which appeared in The Radical Humanist: volume 37, p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=oA0IAQAAIAAJ&q=%22more+violent%22#search_anchor. Earliest published source found on Google Books attributing this to Einstein is BMJ: The British Medical Journal, volume 319, 23 October 1999, p. 1102 http://books.google.com/books?id=bQk7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22more+violent%22#search_anchor. It was attributed to Einstein on the internet somewhat before that, for example in this 1997 post http://groups.google.com/group/alt.weemba/msg/2bbf56ab8f4f757d?hl=en.
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Edith Evans (1888–1976) British actress

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“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

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“To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”

Janeane Garofalo (1964) comedian, actress, political activist, writer

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“Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

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“This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fantasizing heroic shit without realizing that what was shaping up was going to be the greatest heroic adventure of them all: trying to live and be a decent human being. That shit takes more courage than I ever had.”

Junot Díaz (1968) Dominican-American writer

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“Not blaming ourselves for mistakes is the flip side of not taking credit for our acts of courage or creativity or leadership, or our good ideas.”

Charles Eisenstein (1967) American writer

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“Directing takes more courage than acting.”

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