Quote for Today: Madeleine George
Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won’t have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I’d rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to …
Quote for Today: Muriel Barbery
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in the flow of human …
Quote for Today: Thomas Mann
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena …
Quote for Today: Ellen Hopkins
Empty is the perfect state of being. Nothing inside to anchor you. Nothing inside to chain you down, keep you from living your dreams. Empty, almost weightless, you are an …
Quote for Today: Martha Beck
If you’d rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start …
Quote for Today: John Geddes
I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion – can you understand that? ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Quote for Today: Jennifer Egan
Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was “digitization” which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: …
Seven Common Assumptions That Chain Creativity
Would you like to be more creative? Some common assumptions can chain our creativity and limit our experience of life. We have incredible minds. The mind helps us perceive and …
Innovation through our Limitations: The Creativity of Bob Fosse
We often view our limitations as stumbling blocks. What might happen if we embraced them and created through them instead? Bob looked different than the other dancers. He was small. …