Alan Cohen Quotes

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

I have learnt three things from Barry John which are applicable to life, too: Don't expect anything from another actor, one shouldn't judge, and one shouldn't block things.

Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

There are some things I'd like to get into in terms of what's important to me.

Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.