THOUGHTS

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves.

ESSEX HEMPHILL

I am a revolution without bloodshed.  I change the order of things to suit my desperations.

MERCE CUNNINGHAM

When movement becomes awkward is when it begins to become interesting.

BEAH RICHARDS

To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.

JENNIFER LOPEZ

I respect talent, but I respect hard work more. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

TONY KUSHNER

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

I write

Erase

Rewrite

Erase again

And then a poppy blooms.

JAMES BALDWIN

The paradox of education is precisely this: that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

BRUCE LEE

Don’t speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn’t know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells; that’s why it’s called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

VICTORIA MORAN

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Heaven sends us habit in the place of happiness.

OSCAR WILDE

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

REBECCA TAICHMAN

Sometimes it does violence to an impulse to explain it. The only way to truly see it is to try it. This is maybe the crisis of our time. We are all looking in the wrong direction.

LIZA MINNELLI

Cigarettes are one of the leading causes of all statistics.

GEORGES BRAQUE

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

SARO

Take 30 minutes of quiet meditative time before your performance. Use affirmations, like “I am the shit.” Sometimes stillness is the move; once you command the space with your presence, silence and stillness melts brains. Study performances of the greats, and borrow techniques from each of them; think about who you want to emulate, and have percentages of each. Take the audience on a journey, give them a piece of you to keep.

ANONYMOUS

What consumes your mind consumes your life.

BRANDON MAXWELL

Lean in to whoever the hell you are.

ADAM GREENE

Take nothing personally. Opinions of others are about them, not you. Do not obsess over negative thoughts. You are not a victim; let it go. Have empathy, avoid cruelty. Do not seek validation from others. Validate yourself.

MARCEL DUCHAMP

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

FRANK HERBERT

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

E.M. FORSTER

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.

ALBERT CAMUS

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

ADRIENNE MARIE BROWN

Pleasure evokes change. Pleasure invites us to move, to open, to grow.

MIZUTA MASAHIDE

My house has burned down. Now I have a better view of the moon.

GUSTAV FLAUBERT

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

EMILY ST. MANDEL

if definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be: So what.

WERNER HERZOG

The only distinction between me and you is that I can articulate my dreams.

TONI MORRISON

Make up a story...for our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

JACK KORNFIELD

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

MOHANDAS GANDHI

When I despair, I remember that all throughout history the way of truth and love has always won.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.

HILLARY CLINTON

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

RUPAUL CHARLES

The biggest obstacle I've ever faced was my own limited perception of myself.

TAYLOR MAC

How can wondering be at the center of dramatic action rather than the achievement goals inherent in conflict? Sarah Ruhl says most theatre is made in the form of a male orgasm. That seems accurate, in terms of theatre usually engorging to catharsis. May we add that the radical queer understands a male orgasm may be varied, multiple, and circular? All this to agree: there’s more than one way to engage with others….Shall we turn our craft into a vagary of wondering? Or, how do we become less knowing and more Socratic?

ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

PAUL WELLER

Evil turns to statues, and masses form a line
But I know which way I'd run to if the choice was mine
The past is our knowledge, the present our mistake
And the future we always leave too late
I wish we'd come to our senses and see there is no truth
In those who promote the confusion for this ever changing mood, yeah

MEI ANN TEO

As directors, we must work in small ways and large to shift our own addictions.

JIM ROHN

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.