Terry Teachout Quotes

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

LiveArtMenJoyWorldPerception

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

Jim Garrison

GoodPersonalityManYourselfPeople

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

Joan Collins

HatGentlemanLipsYouHandGone

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

FriendshipLoveGeniusDifference

I was in Los Angeles prepping my episode of 'Dollhouse' when the final 'Planetary' hit the stands in October. Yeah, it was surreal. One chapter closing, another opening.

John Cassaday

Los AngelesChapterClosingOpening

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

John Templeton

HumbleDayEvery DayKnowBecome

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Alvar Aalto

CityYouHouseBuildPersonalOpera

I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.

Rob Thomas

WorkHappyBe HappyProudWantShow

I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style.

Rose Namajunas

MorningStyleMyselfMeWake UpNew

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless.

Mike Butcher

CareYouTeachAfraidWorthlessGet

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Joyce Meyer

WorkGodYouPrayCannotUntil

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

Jason Fried

WorkMorningPeopleNightWeekend

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.

Cliff Martinez

MusicFeelLearnUnderstandMore

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