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In Art & Fear (2001), authors David Bayles and Ted Orland share a very interesting anecdote on the value of volume: The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right
... See moreJosh Kaufman • The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
This saga was more colorful than today’s studies of pricing anomalies in the derivatives market. Unencumbered by the received wisdom of a business education, I had to figure things out for myself. If you think things through for yourself, you may waste some time, but you also may stumble onto something that has been ignored or disregarded. Doing so
... See moreEugene Linden • The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market
his passion for what was new, his determination to do something that had never been done before, and his commitment to the most advanced technology,
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
practicality, high aesthetic ambition, and creative imagination could coexist
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
quality endemic to all geniuses—he was like a great child.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
“He was a terrific listener,” Neuwirth says. “It’s one thing to have good ideas, it’s another to recognize when others do. . . . If there was a pony in your pile of horse manure, he would find it.”