Quote for Today: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer …
Quote for Today: Pyotr Kropotkin
Having been brought up in a serf-owner’s family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, …
Quote for Today: Jacques Pepin
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon …
Quote for Today: Juliet Marillier
The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that – that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of …
Quote for Today: Adrienne Rich
Transcendental Etude No one ever told us we had to study our lives, make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history or music, that we should begin …
Quote for Today: Joyce Tenneson
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps …
Quote for Today: Rudy Francisco
Most of what I know I’ve learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing until vertical. The ground has taught me more …
Quote for Today: Jay Woodman
You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself–well that could be because actually know deep down that we are indeed eternal. We come …
Quote for Today: Ashim Shanker
It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own exploratory inclinations. So many learning environments in the …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep …