102 Quotes by Tom Shadyac

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.

I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

I am part of a divine essence. I don’t have to become anything. I already am.

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.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs.

I didn’t want to hear the usual answers about what’s wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man’s ability to fight and often triumph.

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.

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.