Adler Quotes
It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
whether you have training or not, the way to make your look make sense is to surround yourself with the things you love.
It's the nicest thing on earth if someone comes up to me and says, 'Every day I drink out of a mug you designed.'
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.
I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.
I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.
What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
