Egri V R Quotes & Sayings

May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own. — Kimber Simpkins

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. — Rowan Atkinson

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?' — Lajos Egri

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there. — Lajos Egri

I love, love, love women. — Anthony Quinn

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. — George Polya

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it. — Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that. — Lajos Egri

Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Compassion involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. — Pema Chodron

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences. — Iyanla Vanzant

It was important to tell people. To let people know that this can happen. Your child's body can stop. Stop breathing, stop beating. — Sarah Moss

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists; it needs the warmhearted, the hardhearted, the coldhearted, and the weakhearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under which circumstances, and it needs those who can capture the passing impression of cherry blossoms in a fourteen-syllable poem or devote twenty-five pages to the dissection of a small boy's feelings as he lies in bed in the dark waiting for his mother to kiss him goodnight... — Allen Shawn

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. — Winston Churchill

A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too. — Annabella Sciorra

Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it. — Lajos Egri

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves. — Stephen Arterburn

Two or three million years ago, the Earth was a ball of fire, revolving arround it's own axis. It took millions of years to cool under the constant downpour of rain. The Process was slow, imperceptible, but the gradual change - transition - came to pass. Same for generation after generation of evolution on Earth.
Nature never jumps. She works in a leisurely manner, experimenting continuously. The same natural transition can be seen in man. This gradual change, transition, works every where, silently building storms and destroying soloar systems. — Lajos Egri