Top 51 Agon Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Agon

#1. Guy thought of the Greek word agon, wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony?

Edmund White

#2. As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Robert Gottlieb

#3. Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert that justice is always an agon, a conflict, and to refuse this assertion is to consign human beings to wallow in some emotional, fusional balm.

Simon Critchley

#4. The question is a curious collection of words.

Ted Agon

#5. Always the following wind of history
Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air
Till we come suddenly on pockets where
Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem
Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie
Our fathers shouted once.

W. H. Auden

#6. We can't force a child to learn but we can feed his hunger.

Ted Agon

#7. To limit questions is to promote ignorance.

Ted Agon

#8. Constant questioning produces a status quo of change.

Ted Agon

#9. It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

Ted Agon

#10. An investment in questions is the only way to increase human and financial capital.

Ted Agon

#11. The only faithful tradition is change.

Ted Agon

#12. One of the best collaborations is between social and solitude.

Ted Agon

#13. Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Ted Agon

#14. As a question is created, it creates.

Ted Agon

#15. Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.

Ted Agon

#16. Technology with out humanity is calamity.

Ted Agon

#17. The "question" is thee transformable power.

Ted Agon

#18. Questions are vehicles to the future. Answers are milestones along the way.

Ted Agon

#19. Any learning process that is not entirely invested in questions is under funded.

Ted Agon

#20. A "question" is a microscope of words.

Ted Agon

#21. Candy can coax kids. Cooked cabbage can't.

Ted Agon

#22. The "question" is the original open-source code.

Ted Agon

#23. It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

Ted Agon

#24. Our challenge is making a long-term investment in our children in an instant-gratification society.

Ted Agon

#25. To acquire a new perspective we must change our point of reference.

Ted Agon

#26. Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks

Ted Agon

#27. Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

Ted Agon

#28. Without mountains and valleys life would just be plain.

Ted Agon

#29. I have an unfounded belief that there is a conspiracy out there creating unsupportable theories.

Ted Agon

#30. Solitude is the "think tank" of the soul.

Ted Agon

#31. Don't disparage ignorance. If it weren't for ignorance we wouldn't have anything to learn.

Ted Agon

#32. As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

Ted Agon

#33. Creativity rudely trespasses and tramples on accepted grounds.

Ted Agon

#34. The "question" is the vaccination against and the cure for ignorance.

Ted Agon

#35. We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

Ted Agon

#36. Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.

Ted Agon

#37. The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Ted Agon

#38. To forbid mistakes is to forbid learning.

Ted Agon

#39. The "question" is the smallest and greatest unit of discovery.

Ted Agon

#40. Those who don't question don't think. Those who don't think don't question.

Ted Agon

#41. Creativity is impossible unless existing rules are broken. Let's break some.

Ted Agon

#42. Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Ted Agon

#43. There is only "now". The better we make now the better our past and future "nows" will be.

Ted Agon

#44. The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

Ted Agon

#45. Questions are the natural agents of curiosity. To limit question is unnatural, against nature.

Ted Agon

#46. We are changing all the time and this never changes.
It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

Ted Agon