Top 46 Johnstone Quotes
#1. But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
Hugh Miller
#2. On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.
Rodney Crowell
#3. The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.
Fred Claire
#4. A world without books is like a playground without children.
Natasha Johnstone
Ash Stone
#5. What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.
Danny Ozark
#6. There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.
Keith Johnstone
#7. Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.
William W. Johnstone
#8. I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.
Keith Johnstone
#9. Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He
William W. Johnstone
#12. I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am ... so I tend to trust it.
Keith Johnstone
#13. He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head.
Derek Johnstone
#14. In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.
Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
#15. If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing
Keith Johnstone
#16. The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner's imagination.
Keith Johnstone
#18. A smile is the lighting system of the face and the heating system of the heart
Barbara Johnstone
#19. If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.
Keith Johnstone
#20. Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.
Keith Johnstone
#21. By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout.
Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
#22. Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.
Keith Johnstone
#23. I find this day Stands in the way Of finding you Beneath the blue
Vickie Johnstone
#24. My feeling is that sanity is actually a pretence, a way we learn to behave. We keep this pretence up because we don't want to be rejected by other people - and being classified insane is to be shut out of the group in a very complete way.
Keith Johnstone
#25. The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.
Keith Johnstone
#26. Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made - which is something no 'normal' person would do.
Keith Johnstone
#27. If we reach the cities, we will reach the nation. If we fail in the cities, they will become a cesspool that infects the entire nation.
Patrick Johnstone
#29. In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.
Keith Johnstone
#30. Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it.
Keith Johnstone
#31. Those who say yes are rewarded by the adventures they have.
Keith Johnstone
#32. An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He's not making any decisions, he's not weighing one idea against another. He's accepting his first thoughts.
Keith Johnstone
#33. My feeling is that a good teacher can get results using any method, and that a bad teacher can wreck any method.
Keith Johnstone
#34. It has been said that it's hard to stop a man who knows he's in the right and just keeps on coming. Smoke knew he was right - and he kept on coming.
William W. Johnstone
#35. Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.
Keith Johnstone
#37. He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.
Ian Johnstone
#38. None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
Keith Johnstone
#39. In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.
Keith Johnstone
#41. Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.
Keith Johnstone
#42. Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.
Keith Johnstone
#43. What a person is afraid to do, he does while possessed.
Keith Johnstone
#44. If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.
Keith Johnstone
#45. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.
Jay Johnstone
#46. In the American oligarchy, the President is a temporary chairman of the board who is there to take responsibility for actions decided in private sessions. He is there to sell policy more than to make it.
Diana Johnstone
