Ted Shawn Quotes

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

Ted Shawn

• Artist
• Ecstatic

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Have
  • Dresses
  • Many

• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Best
  • Look
  • Makeup

• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Know
  • Day
  • Everyday

• A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Now

• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Books
  • Down
  • Relationships

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Country
  • You
  • Famous

• One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Change
  • Years
  • Wishes

• With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • World
  • Imagination

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Way
  • Moment

• ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

  

  Tan Le
  • Science
  • Creativity

• I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Work
  • Music
  • Me

• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Only
  • Truly
  • Spontaneity

• After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Social

• When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Mirror
  • Desperate
  • Articulate

• When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Thinking
  • Careers
  • Forty

• The artist must be ecstatic about something.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • Artist
  • Ecstatic