The Great Acting Blog: “The Worthlessness Of Cynics”
Get away from people who are not supporting you, get away from people who are not having a positive impact on what you’re trying to do. This advice may seem harsh because they may have some good qualities, but if you’re trying to accomplish something difficult and complex then you simply cannot afford to carry the extra weight they will put upon you.
The kind of person I’m talking about often expresses a certain cynicism about the project you’re working on, or about the vision you have. They simultaneously feel threatened by it and have contempt for it. These people cannot see past the end of their noses, they do not understand that the seeds planted today will grow tomorrow. If it doesn’t look like the finished article right now, then for them, it has no value. The tragedy however, is that their cynicism is really about themselves. They see the world through their own eyes, they think that because they are grasping hacks then everyone else is too. They think that because they believe in nothing then everyone else does too. They think that because they are worthless then everyone else is too.
