It's Ok To Disagree Quotes

THE SECOND CITY MANAGES to accomplish three things to accelerate its performers’ growth: (1) it gives them rapid feedback; (2) it depersonalizes the feedback; and (3) it lowers the stakes and pressure, so students take risks that force them to improve. For the first year, Leonard explains, The Second City’s goal is to get students used to anticipating negative feedback and to get them out of their own heads. This is about building confidence and creating a “safe” environment in which it’s OK to screw up. Then, second-year classes ratchet up the feedback, putting actors in a succession of situations where they will fail small in front of live crowds. It’s one thing for your coactor or director to tell you a joke is funny, but it’s entirely another to hear the pins drop when a live audience disagrees. Or conversely to hear wild cackling from the crowd at something that may have seemed like a bad idea on paper. Every laugh or lack thereof becomes a data point that the actors can use to better themselves. By embracing all these tiny failures, there is no actual failure.* In contrast, a typical acting class might spend an entire semester building up to a single performance. Students practice together in class, but they don’t know if the audience will like their show until the final day. And if the audience hates it, there’s nothing students can do.

It's ok to be confrontational. you can agree to disagree.

Beware Of The Flowers" Ok let's make this the big one for Otway Look out baby Ok let's make this the big one for Otway Look out baby Look out Pet Here's the kid Who's gonna get the Blues When you go away I'm on fire Cause I'm in love With a girl who's not the girl she was When I was out with her I saw you in the garden minute You looked so debonair Beware of the flowers Because I'm sure they're gonna get you Yeah! I won't try to say goodbye Maybe I'll just kick myself inside I really wanted to go home You might say that today Was the very last time you walked this way You'll tell him on your own Well I'd tell him where to go to baby But you know I wouldn't dare Beware of the flowers Because I'm sure they're gonna get you Yeah! Disagree, Disapprove Baby they all said that it was me Who went out in the nude How can you be so sure Baby when the love shines its pure It's a light thine shines on us Well I know someone who loves you baby And I know he really cares Beware of the flowers Because I'm sure they're gonna get you Yeah!

Class, take 15 seconds to think of your answers. I will go around the room starting at Lindsay and everyone will have a chance to respond. When it is your time to answer, if you want to, you can say, "Pass." If you do so, that's OK. I will come back to you, and you can either give an idea you thought of or say an idea you heard from someone else that you agree with. Or a part of an idea you agree with. So in this way we will hear from everyone. Class, take 2 minutes to develop an answer to this question. You may write down some ideas in a list, in sentences, in images. I want you to go beyond the first ideas in your head. I will then call on you, one at a time. Class, this is a great question for everyone to consider. I think you need about 37 seconds on this one. I will tell you when that time is up, and then you should share your answer with the person sitting next to you. Then I am going to go around the room—this time, let's start with Andrew and go counterclockwise—and you have to tell us what your partner gave for an answer. So listen carefully. Class, here's the deal with answering this question. Everyone will have 20 seconds to consider. Then I am going to ask Eric and Liz their ideas. Then I will ask Jess and Matt to say if they agree or disagree with Eric and Liz. Then I will ask Jenny and Max to add any ideas or reactions. We will regularly do this: one group gives a first response, one group says if they agree, and the third group adds comments. Class, I am not asking you "Why did the Industrial Revolution begin?" but instead, "What are some of the reasons it began?" You can write a list or sentences. I will start this time with Danielle and have her say one reason. I'll write it on the board. Then Casey will give one reason. Then Eric. And we'll go around the room, collecting ideas, until we run out of them. That way, no one person gives all the answers for the group—everyone contributes. When we collect all the ideas, then I am going to have you work on your own to organize them into …. Class, JP just gave an answer to the question I asked before I could give you all time to think, so now I want you to consider his answer for 10 seconds. Then thumbs up if you agree with JP, thumbs down if you disagree, and thumbs sideways if you are not sure. Oh no, class, it happened again—this time Jeffrey answered the question before I gave you all time to think. So, it's "Fist to Five" time. Hold up a fist if you disagree, five fingers if you completely agree, and one to four fingers depending how much you agree. Let's see what we all really think, after 10 seconds. Class, this is a time I want to let the conversation flow more quickly than usual. There is only one thing you have to do before you give your ideas—you have to summarize as best you can what the person who spoke before you said. That way we know we are listening. Class, I have a question to ask that you will need a bunch of time to think about and organize your answers, and then we'll share them in some fashion. I put together this graphic organizer, which might help you get all the parts of the answer organized. You don't have to use it. You can sketch an answer, or write a list, or sentences. I am not playing "Guess what the teacher is thinking" here. The only right answer is what you are thinking, if it is organized enough for the rest of us to understand. Here goes….

Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge The sky outside looks like rain looks like the sky looks like water. When I try and tell my story, I take a deep breath and vomit saplings of myself that tell translations of the same story. They dance dances to the music of the rain in the sky that looks like water. And I try and explain that all stories can coexist and I am many separate things that disagree with one another and that is ok. Because in the forest that is many other forests, I found my lungs. Because in the forest that is many other things, apart from other forests, I left my camera to record the sound of the rain falling from the sky that looks like water. I have that sound here. You can listen to it. It exists. And if we are seventy percent water does that mean that we are constantly falling from the sky? Towards forests that exist on paper. If I record us, would people hear us? All our many different selves hurtling towards the ground. Would they think we are extraordinary, dancing in the rain?