“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.” WantLittlesCharacterUsePastImaginationCreativeConsciousTheatreStuckCreative Imagination Author:Stella Adler
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.” PastTurnsLiteratureSocialCausesNaturalRaceProgressGenerationsEffectsExerciseIntellectualConsciousCapacityUnityStoresFedsSensibilityConnectingPast And PresentSocial Progress Author:George Henry Lewes
“Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.” PastChoicesCoursesPerfectPhotographyConsciousStructurePhotographerMediumsLegacyAestheticInvestigationLightingPresent DayPictorialSpecifics Author:John Pfahl
“The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.” MindPastSecurityConsciousObviousConscious Mind Book:On directing film Source: On directing film
“You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.” MomentsPastLife IsConsciousEmptyInfiniteCaughtCurrentsLinksChanging Your LifeRipple Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms