Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: fear talent victory depression research cliche
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: talent soul quality effort midnight
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: nature character revelation choices pressure
Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: life art reality knowledge story storytelling emotion meaning harmony feelings awareness chaos epiphany confusion epiphanies aesthetic-emotion
No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: knowledge learning civilization destruction plato citizens
We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: thinking insanity feeling lunatics
Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: life decisions determination action capability willpower
In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: life math double-negatives
Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: choice lies meaning-of-life emotion action deus-ex-machina
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
Robert McKeeStichwörter: laughter comedy argument
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