Efforts and Goals and Joy
If you make lists of lofty goals, it can be easy to leave them to accumulate, as happens sometimes, into a mountain of to-do ’s and notes and half-forgotten plans. Dreaming alone is seductive, even a little sweet, since it lacks the pain of trying. So it feels proper to prize attempts more than dreams. You should have ideals, but you cannot only... See more
Simon Sarris • Efforts and Goals and Joy
“It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.”