I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. Tom Shadyac More Quotes by Tom Shadyac More Quotes From Tom Shadyac I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am. Tom Shadyac divine essence Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer. Tom Shadyac cancer law years You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave. Tom Shadyac sowing apples tree I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world. Tom Shadyac powerful creative people Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is. Tom Shadyac simplicity successful tree The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle. Tom Shadyac technology development principles When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything. Tom Shadyac circles world moving Authenticity means to be the author of your own life. Tom Shadyac self-awareness authenticity mean Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it. Tom Shadyac order kids school Love is not always about ‘everything’s fine’…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn’t always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it. Tom Shadyac and-love love-is sweet The bike accident caused me to start talking about spiritual truths. This accident - where I faced my own death - compelled me to talk about these truths and try to make a movie about them. Tom Shadyac spiritual trying talking I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. Tom Shadyac community kindness thinking What matters is who we are, not who we beat. Tom Shadyac who-we-are what-matters matter We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it. Tom Shadyac discovering asking world The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow. Tom Shadyac deeper transformation action You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there. Tom Shadyac energy messages ideas Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. Tom Shadyac done belief might Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under. Tom Shadyac cooperatives incredibles simple Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy. Tom Shadyac without-love love-is enemy I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal. Tom Shadyac normal people world
