"Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought."

-- Clifford Stoll

#Thinking Quotes #Data Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.”

Source : "How Do Book Covers Tell Their Own Stories?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, kvpr.org. June 7, 2013.
“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”

Source : Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company
“A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.”
“Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 07, 2011
“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”

Source : "Stuckist Manifesto". Manifesto by Billy Childish, Charles Thomson, www.theguardian.com. 1999.
“Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.”
“It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.”
“Great Art is collaborative but not democratic. It’s OK to be the boss”

Source : Jamie Catto (2016). “Insanely Gifted: Turn Your Demons into Creative Rocket Fuel”, p.144, Canongate Books

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