"The muse doesn't come without being called."

-- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#Life Quotes #Muse Quotes

“I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute.”
“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”
“No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.”
“As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.”
“It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.”
“Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
“Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.152, Harvard University Press
“I have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.”

You may also like: