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beauty
Nook • 1 card
beauty is not a luxury
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
"Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. I think pretty much everything I've done has had an aesthetic component—at least to me. Now, you might think, "Building a company that's trading bonds? What's so aesthetic about that?" What's aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it ri... See more
3-2-1: The key to great relationships, the will to achieve, and beauty as a guiding principle
At the root of beauty is eros, a primordial inner GPS that guides us to what we desire. It is how the species survives: the colors and shapes of bodies, the arousal inside us when we see something we interpret as beautiful.
Charles LaFond • Note to Self
Beauty is both subjective and objective.
Example: Lines of code may be beautiful to a SWE but gibberish to someone else
on beauty
art brut • 2 cards