David Bruce Anecdotes
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Problem-Solving
• In the 18th century, the boxing ring was at ground level, and fans became so excited that sometimes they would jump into the ring and start fighting. To solve that problem, boxing promoter Jack Broughton added ropes to the ring and raised the ring six feet from the ground. His innovations are still in effect today.
• The late Chuck Daley used to coach the Detroit Pistons. Often, he would take players out of the game — players who objected vociferously at being taken out of the game. When a reporter asked him how he handled such situations, Mr. Daley said, “I’m over 70. I don’t always hear so good.”
• Figure-skating choreographer Sandra Bezic enjoys being on the ice. Whenever she works with pairs team Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini and feels like getting a figure-skating “fix,” she asks Mr. Martini to perform the movement known as a death spiral with her.
• In 1993 at the Hong Kong Open, rain washed out the first two rounds. Greg Norman wanted to practice despite the rain, so he hit golf balls through an open window in his hotel residence into the harbor. And yes, he won the Hong Kong Open.
Records
• When Walter Payton broke the NFL record, held by Jim Brown, for most games rushing 100 yards or more, he was asked who he would like to see break his record. He replied, “I don’t care who breaks my record once I retire — as long as it’s my son.”
• When Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926 (knocking two hours off the men’s record), reporters asked her how she felt as she walked onto shore. She replied, “Wet.”
Scouts
• Roy Cullenbine was an outfielder long ago. When he was still playing bush-league baseball, a sportswriter told him to play especially well that day because two scouts were in the stands and if he played well, they would want to see him after the game. Mr. Cullenbine did play well, making four hits and several spectacular catches. Sure enough, after the game, two scouts were waiting to meet him — they were Boy Scouts.
• In 1912, baseball player Casey Stengel was scouted on a day on which he could do little right. He tried to steal twice — and was thrown out each time. He made a spectacular catch — and threw the ball to the wrong base. He reached base once — and found himself sharing the base with a teammate. The scout reported, “Stengel can run, throw, and hit. He’s the most promising I’ve ever seen — from the neck down.”
Signs
• Major-league baseball pitcher Bob Gibson had a sense of humor. After he broke his leg, he got tired of answering the same questions over and over from sportswriters; therefore, after the cast came off his leg, he wore a sign around his neck with the answers to the questions that sportswriters kept asking him: “1. Yes, it’s off! 2. No, it doesn’t hurt. 3. I’m not supposed to walk on it for a week. 4. I don’t know how much longer. 5. Ask Doc Bauman. 6. Ask Doc Middleman.” In addition, he once drew eyes on his bat so it could “see” the ball and he would get more hits. It must have worked: In his career, he achieved a grand total of 24 home runs in regular-season play. His last major-league home run was a grand slam against the Mets.
• Early in his career, African-American tennis great Arthur Ashe played at a club that had this sign out front: “Whites Only.” Fortunately, the sign meant that white tails were to be worn at the club that night, but Mr. Ashe did not feel good looking at the sign.
• For 18 years, Gary McCord did not have a single win on the PGA Tour. Therefore, he acquired his own vanity license plate: NO WINS. Finally, in 1991, he won on the Hogan Tour. Because of the win, he added an asterisk to his license plate.
Superstitions
• Many hitters have strange beliefs about their bats. In the mid-1950s, Forrest “Spook” Jacobs used to squirt eye drops on his bat because he thought his hitting prowess improved when he used a “seeing-eye” bat. In the early 1900s, John “Chief” Meyers would not allow his fellow players to use his bats because he believed that each bat was capable of making only 100 hits. One of Meyers’ teammates, Benny Kauff, rested his bats whenever he felt that they were tired.
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Chapter 14: The Desert with Falling Flames (Inferno)
Because of Dante’s love of Florence, he gathered up the leaves that had been torn from the bush that was the soul of the anonymous Florentine, and he left them by the bush.
Dante and Virgil continued walking, and they reached the third part of Circle 7. Already they had seen the river of boiling blood and the wood of the suicides. Now they came to a desert of burning sand. Nothing grew here, and nothing could ever grow here. Nothing was in this infertile desert but burning-hot sand and the flakes of fire that rained continuously down on the suffering sinners.
The sinners were of three kinds. Some sinners lay on their backs, facing upward. Other sinners were hunched over looking at something hanging from their necks. Yet other sinners were continuously running.
The greatest number of sinners belonged to the groups who were continuously running, but the loudest sinners were those who lay on their backs because they were most exposed to the falling flakes of flame and so they suffered the most.
The pain felt here came from two places: above and below. The flames fell from above, but the sand below was so hot that it burned all the sinners where they touched it.
Almost everywhere sinners were constantly moving their hands to put out the flames that fell on them. First on one side and then on the other side, flames fell. First on one side and then on the other side, hands moved to put out the flames. The dance of the hands was almost universal. Just one sinner did not deign to put out the flames.
Dante asked Virgil, “Who is the sinner who ignores the flames? Although he could move his hands to put them out, he does not.”
The sinner heard Dante and replied for Virgil: “I am the same here in Hell as I was while I was alive. Jupiter killed me because I blasphemed. I was one of the seven who attacked Thebes, and I challenged any of the gods, including Jupiter, to attempt to withstand me. Jupiter heard my boast and my challenge, and he killed me with a thunderbolt.”
Virgil then said to the sinner, “Capaneus, yes, you blasphemed against your god, and so you are punished here. Your sullenness and pride make the pain you feel even worse because they stop you from brushing the flames away from your body.”
Virgil turned to Dante and said, “As Capaneus has said, he was one of the seven kings who attacked Thebes. His blasphemy has sentenced him here, and here he is still blaspheming.”
Virgil thought, The blasphemers, sodomites, and greedy moneylenders are punished in this scorching desert. All of these sinners have committed sins in which they are violent against God or God’s gifts. All of these sinners have committed sins in which they either take something that should be fertile and make it infertile or take something that should be infertile and make it fertile. These sinners are on a sandy, infertile desert on which fire rains down and on which nothing can grow.
The blasphemers ought to have loved God, but they cursed God instead. The love of God ought to be fertile and result in good things, but the blasphemers cursed something that ought to be regarded as valuable. Now they lie in the burning, infertile desert and face upward, looking toward that which they cursed. Of course, when they open their mouths to curse God, flakes of fire fall into their mouths.
In contrast, the greedy moneylenders took something that ought to be infertile and made it fertile. The Bible, which Dante has studied, is against lending money at interest to relatives or to poor people, but the greedy moneylenders lent money at interest when they ought not to. The greedy moneylenders are hunched over, looking at the moneybags that hang from their neck.
Finally, the sodomites took something that ought to be fertile and made it infertile. Instead of having sex of a kind that results in children, they had sex of a kind that can never result in children. For this sin, they run continuously in groups with other sodomites.
All of these groups are violent against God. God is not a physical person (except in the case of the Incarnation), so someone may ask, How can a sinner be violent against God?
Blasphemers are violent against God directly. They curse God directly. The greedy moneylenders and the sodomites are violent against God indirectly. The greedy moneylenders take advantage of the poor, although God has several commandments saying to take care of the poor, not harm them. The sodomites are against God in that they are going against the commandment to “Be fruitful and multiply.”
Virgil said to Dante, “Now let us continue our journey. The wood lines the desert. Stay in the wood and do not set foot on the burning sand.”
They walked on until they reached a stream of reddish water. This was a branch from the river of boiling blood. Its bed and banks were made of stone, and it crossed the burning, infertile desert.
“This stream is our way across the burning desert,” Virgil said to Dante. “Above it, the falling flakes of flame are put out. This stream is the most remarkable sight you have yet seen in Hell.”
Intrigued by Virgil, Dante asked him to explain more about the stream.
“In the Mediterranean is an island called Crete,” Virgil said, “and on that island is the place where Rhea hid Jupiter, her son, from his father, Saturn, a monster who usually devoured his children. Whenever the young Jupiter cried, Rhea ordered her servants to shout loudly to conceal Jupiter’s presence from his cannibalistic father.
“A statue of an old man is located on Crete. The Old Man of Crete is made of many kinds of materials, which grow less in quality descending from the head to the feet. The Old Man’s head is made of gold, his arms and shoulders and chest are made of silver, the rest of his torso is made of brass, and his legs and one foot are made of iron. His other foot — the right one — is made of baked clay.”
Virgil thought, And so it is with the ages of man. At first there was a golden age, which was followed by a silver age, which was followed by other ages that became successively more degraded.
Virgil continued, “The Old Man of Crete shows his back to the Egyptian seaport Damietta, symbol of the pagan world. The Old Man of Crete faces Rome, home of the Pope and symbol of the Christian world.
“Except for the golden head, the statue is flawed. The eyes of the statue drip tears. The tears flow to the ground and become the streams and rivers and pools of the Inferno. These are those streams and rivers and pools:
“The Acheron, over which Charon ferries the souls of the dead.
“The Styx, a marsh in which the angry and the sullen and the slothful are punished.
“The Phlegethon, a name which means fiery.
“The Cocytus, which you will later see for yourself.”
Dante asked, “You did not mention the Lethe, and when will I see the Phlegethon?”
Virgil replied, “You have already seen the Phlegethon, which was the river of boiling blood in which the physically violent were punished.
“You will see the Lethe later, but not in Hell. It is in a place where those who have purged themselves of sin gather to wash.
“Now it is time to move on. Stay by me, and stay by the stream. Above the stream the flakes of falling flames are put out.”
JOEY NEGRETE
Joey Negrete on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@joeynegrete7198
Joey Negrete: “305” (Redbone Cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrR_ec2Z-c4
Joey Negrete: “Across the Hall”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDUb31O3IM
“Close Every Door” – Joey Negrete/”Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepa-_arU8I
“Joseph’s Coat” – Joey Negrete / Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lExhfCIDypI
LAVANDULA
Lavandula: 5 college friends that like to cuddle and make music.
Landon Elliott – lead guitar
https://www.youtube.com/@landonelliottmusic
Wyatt Fratianne – drums
Isaac King – bass
Joey Negrete – vocals
https://www.youtube.com/@joeynegrete7198
Zach Winkleman – keys
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“While My Guitar Gently Weeps Cover”: The Beatles Cover
Lavandula 4/28/23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_55Q3E8QQ
Lavandula: “Crocodile Rock” Cover – Live at The Union 12.2.22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUzU9ChshRs
Lavandula: “Can’t Wait to Tell You” – Acoustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcy3CNmOZRs
JOHN BORCHARD
John Borchard plays on the Albert Rouzie album SONGS OF LOVE AND DEBACLE:
“Mona Lisa (Rock My Soul)”
“Sweet Magnolia Musk”
“Slowest Man in the World”
John Borchard plays on the Rusty Smith album RUSTY SMITH AND FRIENDS:
“The Deep End:
“Did You Love Me at All”
https://rustysmith.bandcamp.com/album/rusty-smith-friends
John Borchard on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/john.borchard.5/
William McFadden Photographs of John Borchard
https://mcfaddenphoto.com/john_borchard.htm
John Borchard is a member of the Wingnuts.
John Borchard ass a member of Realbilly Jive, as was the late J.D. Hutchison, and as are Mimi Hart, Jommy Smailes, Dave Borowski, and Geoff Goodhue.
http://www.jdhutchison.com/realbilly-jive.html
https://www.amazon.com/You-World-Outside-J-D-Hutchison/dp/B01M0NFEHA/
The Backstage Benefit Fund featuring Richard Shack with John Borchard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2yZjFDG1zw
The Wingnuts: “Hollywood Bed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jjcqs_QcA
Caitlin Kraus: “All Along”
Caitlin Kraus and her band perform “All Along” Sept. 17, 2023, at the Ohio Pawpaw Festival in Albany, OH. Matt Box on bass, Mark Hellenberg drums, Bernie Nau keys, John Borchard pedal steel guitar.
The Wingnuts: “Hippology”
John Borchard (left) on guitar, Bernie Nau keys, Mark Hellenberg drums, Dave Borowski bass, guest Kyle Selmer sax, Jimmy Smailes guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yYtBSQjbIc
The Return of the Cannibals
The Return of the Cannibals live from the Adelphia Music Hall in Marietta, Ohio on March 26th 2022. Steve Lipscomb, Jason Swiger, Jacob Dunn, Kirby Evans, John Evans, and John Borchard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6IxQSOamQ
“Waltzing with Rona”
Bob Stewart (vocals and guitar), with John Borchard on dobro and Jason Smith on tuba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T78K-yt7_eA
The Wingnuts: “Slow Turning”
The Wingnuts with the John Hiatt song “Slow Turning” June 23, 2023, at The Union in Athens, OH. Mark Hellenberg on lead vocals and drums, John Borchard lap steel guitar, Bernie Nau keys, Dave Borowski bass, Jimmy Smailes guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESjzI8yQzA
The Wingnuts Year-2009 album: WHAT A HEART KNOWS
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https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B00375TFFG?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Albert Rouzie & The Windnuts: RIDING THE WHIRLWIND
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0878RQHB7
LIVE FROM HOME: ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS
(All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love.)
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Gifts”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Angela Perley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “What is This You Have Done to Me”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mregk-X_Llg
Angie Heimann: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Girl with the Chestnut Hair”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue6ooyuPpgI
Ben Davis, Jr.: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Leaves”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKq8s7tQ8d4
Billy Rhinehart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Simple as I Look”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
Bob Stewart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Morning Turn”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuQ1ZpwjNY
Bruce and Gay Dalzell: Live From Home (Holiday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
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Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Camille Karavas: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Heard You Talking in My Sleep”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FE6ueEeZs
Carrie Elkin: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Gift”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69Emfug1bw
Dan Canterbury: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Diary of a Turtle”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcao2v5g0I
Danny Schmidt: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Bovine Serenade”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBPv2RNuzY
Don Baker: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Billy and Jenny and Joe”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5xqJX9Vq4
Donna Mogavero: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Restless Night”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KI8rMXiq0
Eric Gnezda: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFDnzfEDV4
Harlan Dalzell: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of Harlan Dalzell’s “Anna Lee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVlLX923HM
Jordan Tice: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Stuff of Dreams”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrfY6QP4k0
Keith Larsen: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Long Time”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIV13letIk
Kim Richey: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Visit”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BPWKgada4
Liz Woolley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Madeleine”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrrMtOEPJY
Megan Bee: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Cannot Look Away”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frS-AXopsnQ
Megan Wren: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The COVID Waltz”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2-2wAFDWg
Nathan Zangmeister: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Taking the Long Way Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2CHeFb_Kw
Nick Vandenberg: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Astronomic Principle, or When You Come Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBLap2HcCw
Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of “My Neighborhood,” previously recorded by Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcuXJdIeoA
Rachel Figley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Trick of the Light”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXqHfxpRYY
Rachel Mousie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Late November”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHh1S9-waY
Scott Minar: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Sorrows of Late Day”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8XRA9PUmg
Steve Zarate: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Early September”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVY6t5zZmM
Todd Burge: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Things I am for You”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGPI43gjqQ
Vincent Trocchia: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRD1DKnRk3Q
William Matheny: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Don’t Know Why”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcmUVpjVhk
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Tony Xenos – Four Miles Around (feat. Bruce Dalzell & Billy Rhinehart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8rwjpM9ZY
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Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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250 Anecdotes About Opera
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250 Anecdotes About Religion: Volume 2
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Be a Work of Art: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
The Coolest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in the Arts: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in Comedy: 250 Anecdotes
Create, Then Take a Break: 250 Anecdotes
Don’t Fear the Reaper: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Comedy: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Dance: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 4: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 5: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 6: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Movies: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Music: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Music, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Music, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Neighborhoods: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Relationships: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Sports, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Television and Radio: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Theater: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People Who Live Life: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People Who Live Life, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
Maximum Cool: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Movies: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Politics and History, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Politics and History, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Religion: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People Who Live Life: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People Who Live Life, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
Reality is Fabulous: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
Resist Psychic Death: 250 Anecdotes
Seize the Day: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno
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