#improv

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do something bad or appear foolish. To not recognize that difference is a pretty big thing. [...] "It's like with improv," Misha said. "True improv is about surprising yourself--but most people won't improvise truthfully. They're afraid. What they do is pull from their bag of tricks. They take what they already know how to do and apply it to the present situation. But that's cheating! And cheating's bad for an artist. It's bad in life--but it's really bad in art." -p.20-1, How Should A Person Be ↗

— Sheila Heti

#control #freedom #improvisation #living-well #risk-taking

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love. ↗

— John Kuypers

#happiness #inspirational-quotes #present-moment #self-improvement #inspirational

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. ↗

— Aberjhani

#change #endurance #faith #inspirational #inspiring-quotes

Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change. ↗

— David Reeves

#moving-on #self-improvement #change

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait. ↗

— Benny Anderson

#content #engaged #get #get married #got

Improvement begins with I. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#i #improvement

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#arise #arrangements #fashioned #improvement #marriage

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. ↗

— John Byrne

#boy #dream #feel #find #i

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#beverly hills #brothers #called #children #conditions