Eugenio Barba famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

  • There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.

  • Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

  • For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...

  • It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

  • It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

  • I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

  • I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

  • Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  • The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.