“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor … What is behind that mask of his?”
Article in Modern Review (1936) by a pseudonymous author signing himself "Chanakya", later revealed to have been Nehru himself; as quoted in TIME magazine : "Clear-Eyed Sister" (3 January 1955) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,892893,00.html & "The Uncertain Bellwether" (30 July 1956) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,867026-8,00.html
Context: The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor … What is behind that mask of his? … what will to power? … He has the power in him to do great good for India or great injury … Men like Jawaharlal, with all their capacity for great and good work, are unsafe in a democracy.
He calls himself a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is ultimately slave to the heart … Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him — vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance for others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient … In this revolutionary epoch, Caesarism is always at the door. Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar? … He must be checked. We want no Caesars.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act with…" by Jawaharlal Nehru?
Jawaharlal Nehru 110
Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964Related quotes
Umberto Boccioni
(1882–1916) Italian painter and sculptor
Source: 1912, Les exposants au public', 1912, pp. 2, 3.
Clint Eastwood
(1930) actor and director from the United States
Sergio Leone
Source: Mininni, Francesco (1988), Intervista: Sergio Leone http://www.cinemadelsilenzio.it/index.php?mod=interview&id=17, Cinema del Silenzo (see also, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jun/06/1)
Willem Maris
(1844–1910) Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School (1844-1910)
version in original Dutch / citaat van Willem Maris, in het Nederlands: Voor zover ik me kan herinneren is het zoowat 5 of 26 jaar geleden, dat Breitner [zijn leerling toen] bij mij schilderde in den Huize Rozenburg.. .Ik had daar een grote tuin en daar schilderde hij zijn dragonders met paarden, die hij daar liet poseren..
Source: a letter of Willem Maris to Plasschaert 5 Jan. 1906, RKD Den Haag (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
John Rogers Searle
(1932) American philosopher
Expression and Meaning, p. 31, Cambridge University Press (1979).
can strike us as perplexing – and also, perhaps, a little unsettling. On general principle, it is a good idea to challenge ourselves in this way about anything we have come to take for granted; the more habitual, the more valuable this line of inquiry.
Punished by Rewards
It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.
from lecture "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society", given at the Galileo Symposium in Italy (1964)
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)
Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 252; As cited in: Herbert Simon (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial. page xii.