Mazen Adel > Mazen's Quotes

“We go to the movies to enter a new, fascinating world, to inhabit vicariously another human being who at first seems so unlike us and yet at heart is like us, to live in a fictional reality that illuminates our daily reality.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“When talented people write badly it’s generally for one of two reasons: Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove or they’re driven by an emotion they must express.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“A beautifully told story is a symphonic unity in which structure, setting, character, genre, and idea meld seamlessly. To find their harmony, the writer must study the elements of story as if they were instruments of an orchestra—first separately, then in concert.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“The only time you learn is when someone thrusts an opportunity at you and you are not sure.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.”
― Betsy Thompson, Walking Through Illusion

“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If you know what to do to reach your goal, it's not a big enough goal." - Bob Proctor”
― Bob Proctor

“Fill what is empty; empty what is full”
― davidji

“- للإمام ابن الجوزي نظرات جميلة حول الحياة الأخرى والجزاء, فيقول:

"إن تعلّق الإنسان في هذه الحياة بما هو أجمل, وما هو أكمل, وما هو أمثل, وعدم رضاه بأي وضع يكون فيه, دليل على وجود حياة أخرى في الآخرة". فكأن النفس البشرية لا تقنع بشيء في هذه الدنيا, لأنها متعلقة بعالم آخر, حقيقي, تنجذب إليه بفطرتها وتكوينها.

وقد عبّر عن ذلك عمر بن عبدالعزيز, بقوله: "أوتيت نفسا توّاقة للمعالي. تاقت إلى الإمارة. فلما نالتها, تاقت إلى الخلافة. فلما نالتها, تاقت إلى الجنة".

هذا الطموح والتعلق ليس مجرد حالة نفسية, أو تعبير عن ضعف, بقدر ما هو جزء من كينونة النفس والروح البشرية. فهي تتعلق بالرجوع إلى أصلها.
وقد عبّر عن ذلك ابن الجوزي - في كتاب (سيد الخاطر), وفي كتاب (اللطائف), وفي كتاب ( المدهش), وفي عدد من كتبه, بلغته الشعرية الجميلة, فكان يقول مثلا: "الجنة إقطاعنا, وإنما خرجنا منها مسافرين". ويقول: "كان آدم إذا رأى الملائكة تصعد, حنّ إلى المرْتَع في المرْبَع".”
― محمد المختار الشنقيطي, البحث عن دين الفطرة

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft