“Don't initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.”
Viola Spolin (1906–1994) American academic and acting theorist
Improvisation for the Theater 3rd Edition (1999), Paul Sills' Sayings of Viola Spolin, page xiii
"Just Don't Give A Fuck" (Track 15).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)
“Don't initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.”
Viola Spolin (1906–1994) American academic and acting theorist
Improvisation for the Theater 3rd Edition (1999), Paul Sills' Sayings of Viola Spolin, page xiii
“New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.”
Robert Muldoon (1921–1992) Prime Minister of New Zealand, politician
Source: My Way, 1981
“A true initiation never ends.”
Robert Anton Wilson book Masks of the Illuminati
Masks of the Illuminati (1981), p. 257
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
IV. That the species of myth are five, with examples of each.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
“The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.”
Machado de Assis book Quincas Borba
O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.
Quincas Borba (1891) ch. 32; Clotilde Wilson (trans.) Philosopher or Dog? (New York: Noonday Press, 1954) p. 41.
“Death and it's associates, after the initial shock produce callousness.”
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) writer of Indian English literature
Melissa Farley (1942) American psychologist
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia (2006)