Workshops Quotes - Page 8

• You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Morning, Book, Library

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• I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.

  William Stafford

  Art, Teaching, Decision

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (2003). “The answers are inside the mountains: meditations on the writing life”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Suicide, Teaching, Goal

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• Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Art, Health, Science

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• I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

  Denis Johnson

  Hate, Teaching, Two

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• We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purvey­ors of resource lists.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Reading, Hands, White

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• Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing — if only they have a will and begin.

  Gustav Landauer

  Land, House, Credit

  Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.4, PM Press

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• Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

  James Madison

  Country, Freedom, Justice

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• You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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• As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Beautiful, Writing, Rainy Day

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• UNICEF is doing amazing things here. They're helping these groups of kids to be mine aware, and using drama and workshops to teach children in all of the schools in the area to be aware of mines and what to do if they find one, and if somebody's hurt, not to rush in - all of the essential things that kids need to know.

  Ewan McGregor

  Hurt, Children, Drama

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• There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Honesty, Teaching, Criticism

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• One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.

  John Dewey

  Religious, School, Office

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully, through our own abandoned story drafts. After writing twenty pages about a harmonious family picnic, say, or a well-received rock concert, we discover that a story without a complication flounders, no matter how lovely the prose. A story needs a point of departure, a place from which the character can discover something, transform himself, realize a truth, reject a truth, right a wrong, make a mistake, come to terms.

  Monica Wood

  Mistake, Reading, Character

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• The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Mixing, Different

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, People, Worry

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress (ANC) workshop to plan its media strategy. I went down to meet him for the first time and you know me I got stupid... I just choked. I said, "Hello Madiba, it's a real honour to meet you," and I couldn't get another word out.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Stupid, Real, Media

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

  Paul Smith

  Mother, Father, Basements

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• I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.

  Eavan Boland

  Responsibility, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

  Sam Abell

  Teacher, Careers, Momentum

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"
  And I always say, "My Dad."

  Sam Abell

  Dad, People, Would Be

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• The thing with my workshops is, photography is a thoughtful process. In an atmosphere of fast photography, and generally thoughtless, quick, automatic photography, I think that there is an interest in the slowed down, thoughtful approach.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better."

  Sam Abell

  Class, Students, Photograph

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the workshops, they're consumed with seeking the subject, and I teach seeking the setting.

  Sam Abell

  People, Building, Photograph

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.

  William Gurstelle

  Home, Rivers, Office

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