Top 100 Gottlieb Quotes
#1. anxiety due to environmental stress is a major cause of myopia. Gottlieb
Jacob Liberman
#2. Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way, but the payoff is better if we don't pretend when we feel weak or scared so that we allow people to show the kindness that's in them
Daniel Gottlieb
#3. Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.
Adolph Gottlieb
#4. Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see 'The Glass Menagerie,' well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this - because there was nothing like this on Broadway.
Robert Gottlieb
#5. Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#6. Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#7. The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.
Robert Gottlieb
#8. And then I realized that whatever we did, it wouldn't feel like it did before.
Daniel Gottlieb
#9. When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came up with the idea of putting on Russian plays with the students to improve their language skills.
Robert Gottlieb
#10. A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'
Robert Gottlieb
#11. City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.
Robert Gottlieb
#12. What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
Robert Gottlieb
#13. 'Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?'
Robert Gottlieb
#14. In Greek mythology, Gods divide a human soil into two and send them world apart, and thus, each human is doomed to spend eternity looking for his/her other half
Daniel Gottlieb
#15. You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
Robert Gottlieb
#16. Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#17. Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.
Robert Gottlieb
#18. The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.
Robert Gottlieb
#19. The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
Robert Gottlieb
#20. There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#21. [T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#22. Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
Robert Gottlieb
#23. Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.
Robert Gottlieb
#24. There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of them - you can read every new one that comes along, good or bad, and be caught up in the story all over again.
Robert Gottlieb
#25. Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
Robert Gottlieb
#26. In a field. With the moon.
And the dark. And the dirt.
With your mouth. And just one word:
god god god.
Daphne Gottlieb
#28. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.
Robert Gottlieb
#29. 'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'
Robert Gottlieb
#30. Real security only comes when we are comfortable with who we are, real happiness is a byproduct of a life well lived.
Daniel Gottlieb
#31. Like Abraham, as we embark on our own journey, have a lil faith, take the imparted wisdoms from our parents/teachers, go forward and be attentive always to the quiet voice of your heart
Daniel Gottlieb
#32. The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
Robert Gottlieb
#33. We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.
Robert Gottlieb
#35. We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#36. Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?
Robert Gottlieb
#37. The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
Robert Gottlieb
#38. A Buddhist teacher once said that a poisonous snake is only poisonous when you walk toward it.
Daniel Gottlieb
#39. Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
Robert Gottlieb
#40. There is nothing wrong if you are different. But FEELING different is.
Daniel Gottlieb
#43. Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
Robert Gottlieb
#44. In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Adolph Gottlieb
#45. With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
Robert Gottlieb
#46. Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.
Robert Gottlieb
#47. Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.
Robert Gottlieb
#48. The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art.
Robert Gottlieb
#49. Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
Robert Gottlieb
#50. As the waters of life wash over us, we lose our sharp corners, and that can be good or bad...trust your instincts, remember your 'secret pacts' and reclaim the wisdom you have always had
Daniel Gottlieb
#51. No agent/publisher is in a position to create across a spectrum of media and distribution what major publishers can accomplish for authors.
Robert Gottlieb
#52. It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we die round
Daniel Gottlieb
#53. When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.
Ernst Gottlieb Baron
#54. 'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
Robert Gottlieb
#55. The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
Robert Gottlieb
#56. Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
Robert Gottlieb
#57. I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
Robert Gottlieb
#58. The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Robert Gottlieb
#59. The story of Pi is the story of all of us. We all have tigers under our tarpaulins - tigers that, we feel, could destroy us. We think we want to be rid of our tigers. But the truth is, we would feel a great loss if they ran away, because ultimately, each tiger is part of us.
Daniel Gottlieb
#60. The real reason we have faces," Margot Lassiter observes, "is to hold back what we're thinking from the world.
Eli Gottlieb
#61. 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
Robert Gottlieb
#62. I was the only child, and I know my father had certain thoughts about me. He was a lawyer and extremely literary, but he would have been much happier if I had wanted to be a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer. But what I wanted to do was read.
Robert Gottlieb
#63. It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
Robert Gottlieb
#64. It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
Robert Gottlieb
#65. One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
Robert Gottlieb
#66. By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#68. 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
Robert Gottlieb
#69. There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.
Daphne Gottlieb
#70. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.
Robert Gottlieb
#71. Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.
Robert Gottlieb
#72. Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
Robert Gottlieb
#73. In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand.
Robert Gottlieb
#74. The frightening truth about desire
it's on but
i don't know
whether i want
to be
her, fuck her
or borrow
her clothes.
Daphne Gottlieb
#76. The love between people and especially between mothers and children doesn't end. It flows like a river through the world. Shut your eyes and you can feel it rising.
Eli Gottlieb
#77. When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure brings, an amazing opportunity of being loved for who we are
Daniel Gottlieb
#78. Nobody could call the work of Noche Flamenca & Soledad Barrio pallid.
Robert Gottlieb
#79. Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.
Robert Gottlieb
#80. Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.
Robert Gottlieb
#81. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep.
Robert Gottlieb
#82. So many of us suffer because we are trying to live the life we once had or the life we wish for. Life is much sweeter when we live the life we have
Daniel Gottlieb
#83. Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
Robert Gottlieb
#84. If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
Adolph Gottlieb
#85. Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
Robert Gottlieb
#86. At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.
Robert Gottlieb
#87. Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.
Robert Gottlieb
#88. I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
Adolph Gottlieb
#90. If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
Robert Gottlieb
#91. In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
Robert Gottlieb
#92. Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
Robert Gottlieb
#93. If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
Robert Gottlieb
#94. How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
Robert Gottlieb
#95. We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.
Robert Gottlieb
#96. When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.
Adolph Gottlieb
#97. Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.
Robert Gottlieb
#98. Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
Robert Gottlieb
#99. Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
Robert Gottlieb
#100. You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
Robert Gottlieb
