Sylvie

"To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."

A lot of financial mistakes come from trying to copy people who are different from you.

For care, though, it doesn’t get bigger and better. If your goal is to educate the world, you can look for ways to educate thousands or millions. If you want to inspire the world, the billions await. But if your goal is to care for the world, and in a given moment you’re deeply caring for one person, you’re doing the best it’s possible to do.

If the work artists do is "unserious", then I'd like to be able to wave a magic wand and eliminate any and all things visual, aural, written, etc. that have been created by artists throughout the centuries and see what would be left. How many buildings would be missing? How many sounds? What would the world actually look and sound like without the... See more

Courage is the ingredient any time someone acts in the face of uncertainty. And when you act with courage consistently, time stretches.

Maybe the lesson is even simpler...

Comfort speeds up time.

Courage makes time slow down.

“The protracted journeys of musicals can mean that what ends up on stage just becomes a different version of the nascent idea,”