"Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible."

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Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#Commitment Quotes #Play Quotes #Vigor Quotes

“This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.”
“I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit to subdue my corruptions, my pride, my evil passions, my inordinate love to the creature. Afflictions soften my hard heart, bring me to my knees, increase faith, increase love, increase humility, increase self-denial. Afflictions make me poor in spirit, and nothing in my own eyes.”
“Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.”
“A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.”
“If I have a chance to try in Hollywood I will grab it. What is important is that the work is good - if it's a good role I will grab it. I simply want to do good work and I don't mind where it is.”
“The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.”
“Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.”
“The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.”

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