Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

Rescue From Sana'a

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

By My Side

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.”- Near Kin

Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler

Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

No Laughing Matter

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

Nerd Do Well

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

The Lords and the New Creatures

Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by the tribulations of doubt, all that remains is a monster who is to art what a fanatic is to faith.

Life Form

In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens: From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens: From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise