The students that are successful look at that challenge, wrestle with feelings of inadequacy and stupidity, and begin to take steps hiking that mountain, knowing that bruised pride is a small price to pay for getting to see the view from the top.
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The quote is talking about studying at MIT but I didn’t start getting better at improv until I took this lesson to heart.
- vinny
(via reddit)
You gotta go after the things you want while you’re still in your prime.
There’s a fine, fine line between love and a waste of time.
Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity: Be intensely yourself. Don’t try to be outstanding; don’t try to be a success; don’t try to do pictures for others to look at - just please yourself.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
— Nelson Henderson
We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
—
Walt Disney
Yes! Except replace “make movies” with “do improv”
[There are] people who are so funny they change the game of the scene with everything they say. That’s destructive. I count the unusual things in a scene, if I get to 2 then something’s wrong.
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- Will Hines
I just added Will’s blog to the Improv Blogs list. Also, please note that because I post a quote that doesn’t mean I agree with it but it does mean I find it worth thinking about.
-fv
There’s a certain social intelligence you need to do improv. I’m not saying you can’t, but if you’re a loner or you isolate, and you’re in your own head a lot, you can write things for yourself and execute them brilliantly onstage. But in an improv show, you’re required to deal with other people and build ideas with them.
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
— Mario Andretti
Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.
—
Simon Munnery,
Attention Scum! (a propos of Alex’s post yesterday)
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
— Tina Fey
