Quotes About Drama

Meetings are boring because they lack drama. Or conflict. This is a shame because most meetings have plenty of potential for drama, which is essential for keeping human beings engaged. Unfortunately, rather than mining for that golden conflict, most leaders of meetings seem to be focused on avoiding tension and ending their meetings on time.

Ironically, most leaders of meetings go out of their way to eliminate or minimize drama and avoid the healthy conflict that results from it. Which only drains the interest of employees.

Meetings are boring because they lack drama. Or conflict. This is a shame because most meetings have plenty of potential for drama, which is essential for keeping human beings engaged.

Every great movie has conflict.

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

It seemed that his anger was partly theatrical, that he was amping up his shouts to intimidate me.

Whenever an art form—music, book, drama, song—is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art—even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap—drains the life from it.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.