Quotes About Meaning

My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.

Luck is not having to worry, but also working hard to preserve the things that once gave your life meaning, like work and love.

A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to something large in the world.

Can works be made which are not 'of art'?

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

I don't like most world music because you need to know what the words are to really understand it.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.