It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever.
Interpretation
We should persist and inspire others to have courage and hope, even in the face of challenges.
In this quote, Peter Brook emphasizes the importance of perseverance and the role of hope in human experience. He suggests that while giving up may appear easy, it is vital to continue striving and to instill courage in others. The transient nature of hope does not diminish its value; rather, anything that touches us remains part of our journey, influencing us even if it fades over time.
In practice
This quote can be used to motivate participants during a team-building workshop.
The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought with the meeting of a theme, actors living it, and an audience gradually entering it to live it with them. At that moment, a certain light appears, revealing what we would never have thought of on our own.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
Through a shared aim, shared needs, shared love of a shared result in theatre, from the creation of space... the coming-together of an endlessly repeated climax of shared performance, again and again, something special can appear.
Every form of theatre has something in common with a visit to the doctor. On the way out, one should always feel better than on the way in.
We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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