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”One of my role models is Bob Dylan. As I grew up, I learned the lyrics to all his songs and watched him never stand still. If you look at the artists, if they get really good, it always occurs to them at some point that they can do this one thing for the rest of their lives. And they can be really successful to the outside world, but not really be

Alfred Whitehead

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Things are not quite real until they acquire names and can be classified in some way. Curiosity about places is part of a general curiosity about things, part of the need to label experiences so that they have a greater degree of permanence and fit into some conceptual scheme.

Kevin Lynch What Time Is This Place

An environment that facilitates recalling and learning is a way of linking the living moment to a wide span of time. Being alive is being awake in the present, secure in our ability to continue but alert to the new things that come streaming by. We feel our own rhythm, and feel also that it is part of the rhythm

Kengo Kuma Anti-Object

All ideas come from sensation or reflection. Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished?

Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961)

...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.

"I don't want you to hang my portraits in your offices. Because a President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang pictures of your children instead. And before you make any decision, look into their eyes." — Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine

“A mind that’s all logic is like a knife that’s all blade. It cuts the hand that wields it.” —Rabindranath Tagore

In an interview, the professional rock climber Alex Honnold was given a piece of paper and asked to draw the trajectory of his career. This is what he drew:

Beginning at the age of 18 when he was living out of a van and climbing all over the Western U.S., for ten to eleven years, “it was kind of like nothing,” Honnold said, drawing a flat line along... See more

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Rilke’s Swan, the Antidote to Exhaustion, an Incognito Musician, a Career-Defining Realization, a Really Fundamental Idea, and Different People in Different Situations