Dinah Lenney famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

  • There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  • First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.

  • I always knew I was going to die in space.

  • In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

  • Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

  • It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

  • I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

  • There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

  • Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.