Quotes of: Performance-art Keyword

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

The Shock of the New

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

Sales is the art of giving people what they don’t know they want, when they don’t think they’ll need it, at a price they don’t think they can afford.

Sleepwalking is restercise

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Things Fall Apart

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

Trust: Pandora's Box

I have a mastery of the art of worrying that is a burden to me if I may not use it. --Robin

The Outlaws of Sherwood

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Outside In

WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything will be okay.

The Pocket Pema Chodron

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

The Palace

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Quand tu es dépendant des autres pour le moindre geste, il faut être pote avec la grande aiguille de l'horloge. La patience est un art qui s'apprend patiemment.

Patients

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

The Thirteenth Tale

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.

Voice of Reason

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art