Quotes by Natasha Tsakos
"An opinion is an arrested thought. My opinion."
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“Sometimes it’s the rearranging of ideas that creates something new”
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"The ineffable is where imagination runs wild and the artist chases after it."
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“Is consciousness a singular experience or the collective experience of all simultaneous phenomenons impossible to distinguish subjectively?”
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“It is through tedious and repetitive tasks that epiphanies often reveal themselves. Surprisingly, repetitions nurture a state primed for metaphors”
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“The body is the software, the mind is the hardware. Did you think otherwise?”
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“Never fear the unknowns, they do not know who they are”
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“I have beliefs… but no one system”
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“Our thoughts do not hold more merit because other people think them too. Original thoughts are the result of an ongoing process and should never stop in an echo chamber.”
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"A truth is relative to the flexibility of the mind and velocity of discoveries"
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"Acting is applied virtual reality"
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"We compute at our best when our senses are engaged"
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"The world quieting has cracked open a door in time-space for thoughts and ideas hidden in subneural networks. Clarity is taking roots, imagination moonwalking... Deep thinking has a specific bpm."
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"The subconscious imagines, the mind organizes, the brain executes"
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"Don't stress the mess unless you witness a progress"
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1: Are you a ballerina?
2: In another life...
1: Once a ballerina always a ballerina. You never forget it.
2: That's true...
1: See, I learned absolutely nothing and I never forgot that I learned absolutely nothing.
Conversational wisdom with Jorge Luis Arteaga, Lyft driver and Great Philosopher
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Me then: Define consciousness?
Me later: Realizing that I exist...
Me after: But do I matter?
Me now: Can I truly think myself outside of me?
Me blown away: ………… … .. .
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"It takes people who think differently to create a different world."
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"Just as we should send politicians to space to gain perspective, we should send CEOs to clown school."
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"Art forms are modalities through which we sense perceive new ideas."
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"It's the Theater of ideas that glorifies, ritualizes and crystalizes man-made realities"
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"There is no such thing as an independent artist, all artists are essentially co-dependent of their audience"
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"When intentions move
When ideas dance
When concepts find their stage
The creator begins"
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"Instead of thinking of a year as a sequence of 365 days, think of 365 people performing tasks and the compounded result of these tasks in a year."
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"The beginning informs the end. The end informs the beginning.
At the end it’s about beginning."
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"In a world where things were rigid, imagination danced"
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"We all an embedded augmented reality headset called imagination. It's free. Use it."
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"Consciousness is the ability to zoom in and out of ourselves"
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"Traveling: you loose yourself a little and find yourself some more”
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"It’s more than 'targeting' an age range, it’s addressing an evolutionary shift."
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"We are all refugees, of an industrial age"
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"I like to plant clues in people’s minds and musically time their explosion into a firework of concepts while rolling up and down a coaster of emotions. The themes are sparked by the isms of existence."
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"It’s like your brain is suddenly wired to take in all the bits of information it receives and computes theatrical combinations in the background…. And all you can do is capture the ideas as they come, as best as you can."
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"Left Brains, Right Brains, United Brains of the Universe!"
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"I believe in Imagine-action: applying imagination in actionable ways. Its starts with having bold ideas, daring to believe in them, experimenting until you get it right. It means never giving up to failure, and never giving in to people’s skepticism. It means thinking outside of the ordinary."
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"We don’t think, we think we think. Thinking never thinks, it knows better. It’s embedded in our biology"
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"We are not here to question the possible, we are here to challenge the impossible"
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"Imagination is an instrument that you’ve been given permission to play and practice."
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"The creative process is about the power to disassociate the linear and literal and allow our minds to create new associations. Which triggers new ideas, often bizarre and crazy. Yet, here we are in place a total possibility, suspended into disbelief, driving at 30 billion metaphors per second. It’s like speeding up a stream of consciousness where our minds compute-decompute-recompute new combinations in the background and we stop judging it."
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"We are neither left brained or right brained, we are one brained. And our one brain works things out through different modalities. Albert Einstein said that the theory of relativity occurred to him by intuition, and music was the driving force. His discovery was the result of musical perception. We should infuse Arts in laboratories, research centers, schools; insert Art somewhere between Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, and vice versa."
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"We are so turned on ourselves
We cannot see anything else"
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"Do what you can’t
Try what you won’t
Think what you don’t
Stretch your horizons"
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"A Show Recipe:
Start by cutting one idea
Let it marinate in dreams for a few weeks
Abstract moments from reality
Pour them in fair quantity
Dissolve imagination
Add a pinch of science
An once of fiction
Twist reality
Freshly squeeze metaphors
Research abundantly
Let it simmer organically
Dice a meticulous storyboard
Mix it up musically
Stir the right Talents together
Cook it well.
Showtime baby!"
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"Passion: when playfulness falls in love with a mission"
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“I am not man
woman
specie
belief
I am matter
Ether
Neither
I am augmented reality
State of the art technology
The alchemy of human folly
Expanding and accelerating
I am
Imagination”
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"Define 'Art.' Define 'God'. Define 'Define'."
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"Art is often valued by a certain degree of audacity rather then by its creative merit..."
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"Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas."
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"We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity"
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"Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas that create positive change"
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"The new stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, influence the future that shapes our present."
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"We are all potential of un-excited creativity"
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"We should have different holidays every year,
and celebrate new occasions all the time"
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"I feel like a torpedo just sneezed in my head!
It blows my mind."
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"Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range."
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"We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow."
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"Being creative is not being afraid of being lost."
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"Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice"
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"Impossible is only two letters away from being possible."
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"We have an International Space Station, I propose an International SpArts station!"
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"Titles are prisons of human potential”
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"As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built,
what will differentiate us from machines?"
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"Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation”
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"Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination”
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"It’s about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks"
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“It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy”
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"We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort
and our standards will keep rising.
We want to feel, we want to experience,
we want to connect, we want intelligence,
and we want to play;
Ladies and Gentlemen:
A new theatre is on its way."
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"We’ve now become the spectators of our own mutation.
We may not die human anymore.
But what makes us human?"
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"It’s no longer history in the making.
It’s our story we are making."
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"History is made by those who see beyond what already exists.
They see all the things that don’t yet."
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"What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?
A place where the live experience has an function?"
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"I believe in stories that are non-linear, as we are, hopefully."
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"Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension.
It’s a voyage into the archives of the human imagination.
A passport to all what ifs."
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"I have Shakespeared my Molière to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Beckett!
But I got a little tired of the redundancy."
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"How will the performer-audience interaction change,
now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?"
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"Pass Botox and Denial, is the next Generation."
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"I have been under the influence-
of boggling information over the years."
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"Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank.
Could you imagine having a conversation like that?
Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?"
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"You know you are changing when you no longer have points of references.
Mapping a new life."
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"You'll know you're doing something right when you feel you don't know what you're doing. If you know what you are doing, you could be doing it right, but might just be repeating yourself "
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"Critique, Challenge, Question yourself always.
Never doubt your purpose."
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"“Because” is sometimes good enough of an answer"
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“When I go, make me a firework”