quotes

“A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.” - Charles F. Kettering

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

— Henri Bergson

" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "

Howard Thurman

Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity

“The hand is the window to the mind,” said German philosopher Immanuel Kant.

Denken mit der Hand | LEUCHTTURM1917

From LEUCHTTURM1917 - website. My fav stationery

The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne once said ‘I never predict anything and I never will.’

David Sumpter • Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)

"So I’m on this plane and I’m reading the scene and, all of a sudden, I just started bawling," Hugh says. "It’s a sad scene, but more than that, it was the shock of recognition. I did not live in 1930s Korea and yet, when I read that scene about Yangjin going to the rice merchant, I felt like I experienced it in my bones."

Alex Sujong Laughlin • 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea

Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

What Friendship feels like. Very true!