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- I respect the daily routine
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That’s what you really want—to internalize their way of looking... See more
from Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
- the most important reason for moving from one place to another is to see what’s in between.
from 19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday by Marc Chernoff
- In the words of neuroscientist Gregory Berns, “only when you consciously confront your brain’s reliance on categories will you be able to imagine outside of its boundaries.” Venturing out of the mind’s perimeter of comfort, in a constant quest for the unknown, liminal creators keep on fueling their imagination by exploring the gray areas that live ... See more
from Liminal Creativity by Ness Labs
- Understanding the mind of another person is therefore enabled by getting perspective, not simply taking perspective.
from Perspective mistaking: Accurately understanding the mind of another requires getting perspective, not taking perspective - PubMed by Nicholas Epley
- I felt that I should come home and see if there was something I could do for the people. Not for the country, not for the nation, not for the society, but for my people—that was my notion.
What’s the difference between the two things—between the country and the people—for you?
People buy my books. The country doesn’t.from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
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Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.
I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.
Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me.
When it comfrom Learn To Do Everything Lightly by Tina Roth Eisenberg
- Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
Alma Linda im Tal - #059