Shenaz Treasury Quotes

I recognise life is like a magnet. Positive and negative are on the opposite sides of the magnet. You can try to cut the negative part off, but it's still there. When you accept both of them, it's like, 'You know what? Don't get too identified with success or too identified with failure - just be cool with them.'

Sometimes things go really well, and sometimes they don't, and it's not ultimately the most important thing.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

Things will come and go, and your life will go on, but you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.

You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life.

The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success: Don't panic. Do your best and forget the consequences.

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

Me winning all these trophies is amazing and I want to keep going. And I know that at the snap of a finger it can be taken away. So each and every moment I have to enjoy - and stay humble as well. Because you don't want to get too ahead of yourself.

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.