“I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?” PeopleWayWantFeelsIdeasValuesChoicesAsksMillionsKnowingFailingStageTasteNotesWrong ChoicesValue Systems Author:Amy Poehler
“No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.” KnowsShouldWritingYearsHas BeensPlayMoralFiveStageFineTasteSuitsUselessThirtyFive Years Author:W. S. Gilbert
“If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really care about winning competitions and think of them as chances to learn from the experience, they would become good ways to learn about others and yourself. Competitions are also stages where one becomes known to the public.” IfsThinkingWayMightCareCertainWinningLosesImaginationChanceKnownStageTasteCompetitionIndividualityConformGood Way Author:George Li
“I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.” CareersRecordsToo MuchCuttingStageParticularWillingTasteApproachTrackEditorsProvenInputEditorialsTrack RecordPersonal Taste Author:Grant Morrison
“Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.” MenHumansLittlesMotherStageEvolutionTastePreparedCoffeeDependentMidstTemperamentNursingHuman Evolution Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell
“This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.” KnowsYearsMayFactsYoungFiveStageDevelopmentTasteRight NowWineOilDespiteSpectacularCrudeStages Of DevelopmentCrude Oil Author:Itzhak Perlman
“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” EndsEyeLastsStageStrangeTasteSceneMereTeethOld AgeOblivionYou Like ItChildishnessStage Acting Author:William Shakespeare
“As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.” BelieveLongI CanTwoBookI BelieveFiveStageReaderTasteJudgmentAdultsPerseveranceNurseTrashNurseryVerdictTaste And Judgment Author:W. H. Auden
“Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.” ThinkingKnowsWayStillsIdeasEndsSinAudienceNiceStageFineTerribleLessonsTasteConceptsWineFamiliarAwfulNo IdeaRanUnderwearVery NiceFrightMaturedStage FrightArcheryFine WineLike Fine Wine Author:Sarah Rees Brennan