#action

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#bands #cash #distraction #else #except

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#americas #delivers #easy #entertainment #kind

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#gotten #imagine #into #pie #satisfaction

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. ↗

— Martha Graham

#another #audience #behavior #being #body

On the job people feel skillful and challenged, and therefore feel more happy, strong, creative, and satisfied. In their free time people feel that there is generally not much to do and their skills are not being used, and therefore they tend to feel more sad, weak, dull, and dissatisfied. Yet they would like to work less and spend more time in leisure. What does this contradictory pattern mean? There are several possible explanations, but one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#happiness #satisfaction #work #experience

Our relationships are nourished and shaped by the commitment we express through our actions. Don't just speak; ACT! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #love #relationships #soul-mates #true-love

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#attraction #bette #bette davis #could #davis

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#active #becomes #being #intensely #many

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#gather #grows #information #sleep #unprofitable

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#again #conducted #during #had #hoped