Belasco Quotes & Sayings

Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers. — Charles Baudelaire

When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell - even then thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, "My companion, my comrade," and I call back to thee, "My comrade, my companion" - for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone. — Kahlil Gibran

Let thy true religion be to act right. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea. — David Belasco

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey. — James A. Belasco

So men are not from Mars, nor are women from Venus. Men and women are from Africa, the cradle of our evolution, where they evolved together as a single species. — Steven Pinker

Boxing is show-business with blood. — David Belasco

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced. — James A. Belasco

Up is never where you are now. — David Belasco

Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light. — David Belasco

A cross with yellow roses. What a fucking thing. It was like an electric chair with floral-print cushions, a bad joke. — Anonymous

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself. — Robert Irwin

Time is the stuff life's made of. — David Belasco

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century. — James A. Belasco

The difference between men I have camped with and myself, generally speaking,' Mary Roberts Reinhart wrote, 'has been this: they have called it sport; I have known it as work. — Warren Belasco

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have
and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. — James Belasco And Ralph Stayer Flight Of The Buffalo 1994

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. — Dexter Fletcher

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood. — Salma Hayek

Whatever I think or feel inevitably turns into a form of inertia. Thought, which for other people is a compass to guide action, is for me its microscope, making me see whole universes to span where a footstep would have sufficed, as if Zeno's argument about the impossibility of crossing a given space - which, being infinitely divisible, is therefore infinite - were a strange drug that had intoxicated my psychological self. And feeling, which in other people enters the will like a hand in a glove, or like a fist in the guard of a sword, was always in me another form of thought - futile like a rage that makes us tremble so much we can't move, or like a panic (the panic, in my case, of feeling too intensely) that freezes the frightened man in his tracks, when his fright should make him flee. — Fernando Pessoa

Alma Belasco had caught her attention. She stood — Isabel Allende

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything ... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad. — Kara Lindsay

Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn. — James A. Belasco