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When you take a hike and you feel a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, you're experiencing the sublime. In most of life, this sense of “smallness” is experienced as a humiliation. But the sense of smallness in the presence of the sublime has an oddly uplifting effect.
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance ... See more
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Feist, in a Broken Record Interview on reconnecting with your artistic roots:
It was a way to strip myself of all of the rules that I'd come up with that they were like collated invisibly over time.
Like, "Okay , I don't, I shouldn't do that anymore because that didn't work. Okay, so now I have rule number one. Now, I shouldn't play multiple shows i
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"I call myself a farmer. Wall Street is flooded with hunters-people who try to go out and find the big game.
They fell it and bring it back, and there's a huge feast and everything is fabulous, and then they look for the next big game.
I plant seeds and then I spend all of my time cultivating them.”
—Thomas Russo" (William Green, Richer, Wiser, Happier)
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One's ability to articulate an idea always lags behind the understanding of the idea, and the understanding of an idea often lags behind the embodiment in which it is first given life. It can take a surprising amount of time to come to understand what a prototype is trying to "say", and longer still to say it oneself.
-Bret Victor
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A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
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