“I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.” ThinkingWayMomentsFeelingsFallActorsLanguageStagePoetMusicianFalling In LoveScreensPainter Author:Cate Blanchett
“I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingKindLittlesIdeasReasonMomentsAbleLife IsJoyBitsMorningStageLittle BitConceptsExcitingMaterialistic Author:Kimbra
“I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.” ThinkingLongTermStageLong TermReliefSignificanceProviding Author:Noam Chomsky
“Just giving the people a great show, leaving it all on the stage. Like when I'm finished I don't want to go home with nothing, I want to leave it all there on the stage, that's what I'm thinking about before I hit the stage.” PeopleThinkingWantGivingShowsHomeStageLeavingFinished Author:Snoop Dogg
“I think more obvious to others, is that I'm most vulnerable on stage. Even though I know which songs I'm going to play, I try and keep it loose and base my stage time more on what the audience is requesting of me.” ThinkingKnowsTryingPlaySongAudienceStageObviousVulnerable Author:Jason Mraz
“I enjoy going on stage knowing that there's going to be that vulnerability and that transparency and hopefully things will be realized or accomplished or that confidence will be revealed. I think that's another element that people like about shows: in addition to hearing the songs that they love, I think there are some people who really get off on connecting with what's happening right now.” PeopleThinkingShowsSongEnjoyKnowingStageRight NowElementsHappeningsHearingHopefullyVulnerabilityAccomplishedConnectingTransparency Author:Jason Mraz
“The difference between writing where you know where to draw the line and writing where you're being way too mean is whether you can tell that the writer is not talking to family or friends anymore. Generally, if you say something bad about somebody on stage, you need to say two bad things about yourself. A lot of times, I think I'm the worst person in the room.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsWritingMeanPersonsTwoDifferencesLinesRoomsTalkingWorstStageDrawsBad ThingsAbout YourselfNot TalkingWorst Person Author:David Sedaris
“There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!” PeopleThinkingShouldKindDoeEnoughPlayBigsFilmStageKingsTheaterScreensAll KindsFeaturesLengthDrsLutherBig ScreenDr Martin Luther KingStage Play Author:Ava DuVernay
“I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesWholeArtistNaturalMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageLike YouSacredNakedPerformersDifferent WorldsSoulfulMy Own WorldSacred Places Author:Justin Nozuka
“They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.” ThinkingLittlesSaidI CanShowsPastAsksStarsCan DoNumbersWeekStageDancingCome UpAsk MeDancing With The Stars Author:Dick Van Dyke
“I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage I'm that confident and that cocky, because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRealHandsMistakeLaughingStageThousandReal LifeStaringMicrophonesCockyCockiness Author:Russell Peters
“Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsAbilityAnswersWonderStagePositionStupidityListsAdmireImpressCompulsionProminentLamaDalai Author:David Steindl-Rast
“Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.” ThinkingWorldBeautifulFoundStageEnlightenmentFinalsDisappearStuckReachingTravelerInner WorldBeautiful Experiences Author:Rajneesh
“... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.” IfsThinkingEnoughDealsExistencePracticeStageMovementRepeatsReaching Author:Paulo Coelho
“Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsStillsSometimesMatterReasonWholeHelpingSchoolReadingFunStuffStageFortuneCriticsBlockReason WhyReviewsThrowingLaughedGraduatesGood FortuneJust Do ItGraduate SchoolJoyceFinnegans Wake Author:Toni Morrison
“As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but it happens to be the contrary. It's the fiction that suddenly feeds your reality. And you don't know how it has been done. That's the kind of magical transposition that is art.” ThinkingKnowsKindHas BeensArtDoneRealityHappensOrderFictionKnow HowStageActressesContrary Author:Ludivine Sagnier
“There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would be loyal and lasting and they were thinking in terms of an institution that would remain and grow and thrive in the society. By now, a lot of the investment firms - bankers, hedge funds - are perfectly happy to destroy what they're in and come out with huge, tremendous benefits. That's a new stage of capitalism.” ThinkingTryingWould BeGrowsTermStageHugeBenefitsCapitalismInstitutionsInvestmentConsumersFirmThriveFundLastingLoyalBankersHedge Fund Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.” ThinkingKnowsMayShowsDesireHateStageToughI HateManageSomedayRetiring Author:Hal Holbrook
“Look, you do everything in stages, right? I don't think everything happens at once. There are so many layers we are constantly chipping away at, down and down and down, closer and closer to what would be the body. I think what happened with cancer, was that I woke up out of nine hours of surgery and I was body. I was just body.” ThinkingLooksBodyHappensWould BeHoursHappenedStageDown AndCancerThings HappenNineLayersSurgeryChipping Away Author:Eve Ensler