Neil Marcus quotes

“Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity'...Disability is an art. it's an ingenious way to live.”
-- Neil Marcus

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“Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.”
-- Neil Marcus

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“Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.”
-- Neil Marcus

Source : "Storm Reading". Play by Neil Marcus, Rod Lathim, Roger Marcus and Access Theater, shown on television and performed at the Kennedy Center (1992); later quoted in Adam Benjamin "Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers" (p. 23), 2002.

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“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.”

“At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.”

“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.”

Source : "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

“I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.”

“Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way.”

Source : "Run Like Adrian Peterson". Interview with Andrew Daniels, www.menshealth.com. November 14, 2011.

“If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.”

“By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy.”

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.”