Excellence Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Ideas Play Quality
Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this… — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience. — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort. — Bud Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
