Sylvie

The world is split between those who don't know how to start making money and those who don't know when to stop.

The exceptions were in two dimensions of personality: conscientiousness and agreeableness. Children were more conscientious when parents were more involved in their lives and worked to provide cultural stimulation (such as taking them to museums); and children were more agreeable when their parents raised them with more structure and goals.

An approach where the goal is not an outcome with a distinct finish line. Instead, a goal could inform the process or system I’d need to commit to that would typically precede reaching my goal. So, instead of having the goal to save $10,000, I’d commit to saving 20 percent of every inflow... indefinitely. And when I did this, I tended to exceed... See more

I have come to the conclusion that whatever lies in the future, stays in the future.

What artists really need, writes Amy Whitaker in Art Thinking, “is not to be paid to make the things they already know how to make, but to somehow find space inside their financials to play and take risks to develop the next thing.”

Nothing better exemplifies the hubris and self-delusion endemic to the American theatre—and subsequently its reaction to the pandemic—than this 60-second excerpt of actor Billy Porter:

”As you all know, what the arts does is it cracks open your mind . And it creates critical thinkers out of us. We become leaders, and not followers — so why do you

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Trying to provoke, rather than prescribe, is her approach. “I don’t want the writer to write what I want — I want the writer to write something that I didn’t know I needed. And that’s been the rule for me throughout my working life, to do with the thing that’s almost impossible to articulate, which is about a feeling, about a chill, about a... See more