Ralph Borsodi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.
-- Ralph Borsodi

#Friendship #Real #Renaissance
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.
-- Ralph Borsodi

#Holiday #Years #Age
Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.
-- Ralph Borsodi

#Mother #Mistake #Men
Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.
-- Ralph Borsodi

#Two #Community #Trying

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

Ralph Borsodi famous quotes

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