Vidal Sassoon Quotes

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.

Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

As for the Kristen Stewart comparisons, I just don't think that's fair. I thought she was great in On The Road and Into The Wild. But she's got enough people scrutinising her without me adding my take.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Every time I'm out and somebody tells me they love what I do, that's what I do it for. That's like my vice. That's like my high. When people understand that this is who I really am, and to be appreciated for your craft .

It seems like there's never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.