Top 21 Sahlins Quotes
#1. Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
Bernard Sahlins
#2. My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
Bernard Sahlins
#3. I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.
Bernard Sahlins
#5. You and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.
Jean De La Bruyere
#8. We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don't have anything; perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.
Marshall Sahlins
#9. Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
Bernard Sahlins
#10. If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
Bernard Sahlins
#11. Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#12. Nothing is to be done, its just life we need to do! That has to be done!
Fereidoon Yazdi
#13. The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.
Marshall Sahlins
#14. To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.
Shubha Vilas
#15. my grandmamma says; 'be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.
Sydney Arrison
#17. We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.
Marshall Sahlins
#18. I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.
Bernard Sahlins
#19. Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
William Hazlitt
#20. If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.
Laura Hillenbrand
#21. The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.
Max Anders
