"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better."

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Source : John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House

John Updike

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“The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.”

Source : Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.82, Alfred Music
“In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.”
“Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.”
“Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.”

Source : "Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians". www.lesswrong.com. April 21, 2011.
“I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
“Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!”
“What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names - now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there.”
“The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.”

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