“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingTryingLongDifferentCharacterJobsHumanityUniverseOpportunityActingSituationCareersEnvironmentJourneyFiguresConnectionsGive MeThings To DoDo You KnowContinuingWireRevealingDifferent Life Author:Forest Whitaker
“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.” TryingHumansEndsJobsCoursesActorsCan DoLinesActingSituationJourneyDivineSkillsProfoundTelling The TruthMapsScreenwriters Author:Paul Greengrass
“To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.” PeopleDifferentDealsSituationJourneyCircumstancesDiscoveryStorytellingGood Storytelling Author:Scott Cohen
“The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.” RealitySituationWonderJourneyEventsMaterialsUnexpectedFactualIntangible Author:Anagarika Govinda
“I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.” IfsWorldKindPersonsStillsRealEnoughStoriesMightRealizingQualitySituationJourneyParticularRootsGreat ThingsAbstractReal WorldOperaSubliminal Author:Tod Machover
“Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."” PersonsMadeFoundStarsSituationJourneyWestPopsCommentPop Stars Author:M.I.A.
“One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and as pretentious as that might sound, there's a real reason for it. It's not the idea of tricking you; it's the idea of taking you along on this particular journey the way you would in any other theatrical situation. But, hopefully, you're going to be fooled at the end.” ThinkingRealReasonSituationJourneyHopefullyTheatricalFooledPretentious Author:Ricky Jay
“I really dig the writers, and I think they challenged me for the most part throughout the journey on the show. If you don't challenge me in a series sort of situation, boy, I couldn't be on it long.” ThinkingLongChallengesSituationBoysJourney Author:William Fichtner
“As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a life to lead. I recalled words a friend had told me, the philosophy of her faith. "Life is a journey and a struggle," she had said. "We cannot control it, but we can make the best of any situation." I was indeed in quite a situation. It was up to me to make the best of it.” MadeSaidPhilosophyLastsLife IsBitsSituationAcceptingStruggleJourneyDustCovenantLife Is A JourneyMake The Best Of It Author:Wangari Maathai
“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.” KnowsMenWellsSometimesEarthHappinessPurposeSituationKnowingOne ThingJourneyDivineStrangeDependsSakePositive AtheismWell BeingDaily LifeNot KnowingStandpointSeemingYour Purpose In Life Author:Albert Einstein
“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.” IfsMayPurposeLove IsSituationImpossibleJourneyAnd LoveLifetimeHealEncountersLove Heals Book:The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide
“If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.” IfsWorldFirstsSaidMomentsSeemsAblePassionViewsEmotionSituationDoubtJourneyLove YouRegretInvolvedPeriodsFirst TimeInevitableDesperateBreakupDoomedLiberatedGreat LoveUnthinkableEquanimityEuphoriaRomantic Relationship Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist