"It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation."

-- Gavin Bryars

#Mistake Quotes #Trying Quotes #Research Quotes

“What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.”
“I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.”
“Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.”

Source : Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis
“Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.”
“Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.”

Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.
“Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.”
“If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.”

Source : "Not strictly commercial". Interview with Mary McNamara, articles.latimes.com. July 23, 2006.
“We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its origin. A river is a different kind of mystery, a mystery of distance and becoming, a mystery of source. Touch its fluent body and you touch far places. You touch a story that must end somewhere but cannot stop telling itself, a story that is always just beginning.”

Source : John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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