Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
Interpretation
This quote warns against being overly flattered by admiration, urging self-awareness and acceptance of harsh truths.
Constantin Stanislavski emphasizes the importance of self-reflection by cautioning individuals to be wary of their admirers. He suggests that excessive admiration can blind a person to their flaws, and instead advocates for an honest and critical understanding of oneself, including the unpleasant truths that can lead to personal growth and authenticity.
In practice
In discussions on personal development, this quote can be used to highlight the importance of accepting criticism.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.
Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.
The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.
Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.
Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.
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