Creativity
Love to create~
Creativity
Kalman hopes to “remind us that we should really be very curious and look around and not take things for granted,” he said. “Find the joy in wondering about that toilet paper roll or that coffee cup lid or that onion ring, and think: ‘Perhaps this is just as strong a definition of who we are as anything some sociopolitical journal might stamp on
... See moreRob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds.
– Gilles Deleuze, On Leibniz
When you carve out big blocks of unscheduled time, you’re creating space for exploration. It’s the oxygen of thinking deep and wide. Without it, it’s hard to cultivate the rich intellectual life you’re after.
Greg Wheeler
Don’t waste time worrying about missing opportunities. Worry about not being in a place that attracts opportunities. If you are at the wrong bus station—every bus is the wrong bus.[8]
Vizi Andrei • The Sovereign Artist
The Ungame was invented in 1972, Conversation Cafe has been worldwide for over a decade, Free Intelligent Conversation is held in public spaces nationwide, Big Talk cards are available all over the world, Chatty Cafe is held in the U.K., End Small Talk (which I did one cross-continent collaboration event with) is held in Dubai, Tea with Strangers
... See moreKat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
from Eileen Myles:
I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life—not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline … but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
– Glenn Gould
– Glenn Gould