Quotes of: Performing-arts Keyword

Owen remarked "The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white...in magic or in anything to my way of thinking.

Sweet Sorcerer

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The Pleasures of Life

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to li...

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprose.

Zen in the Art of Archery

If you feel depressed for an hour, you've produced approximately eighteen billion new cells that have more receptors calling out for depressed-type peptides and fewer calling out for feel-good peptides.

Zen and the Art of Happiness

A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.

Zen and the Art of Happiness

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Zen in the Art of Writing