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“Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by adding layer upon layer of navigation and features; it's much more difficult to create simple, graceful designs. Paring designs to essential elements while maintaining elegance and functionality requires courage and discipline.”
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“What you do, what you say and what you think can influence other people by morphic resonance. There is no immoral filter in morphic resonance, which means that we have to be more careful about what we are thinking if we are concerned about the affect we have on others.”
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“Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.”
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“The need of the human mind for contrast has its roots in the mind's age-old habit of looking for differences and likenesses. When the mind can find no differences and no likenesses, as is the case when monotony is present, it restlessly, then resentfully, and at last frantically seeks for contrast that it may again busy itself with observing differences and likenesses.”
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“The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.”
Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
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“Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21
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“It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.”
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“Events are not a matter of chance.”
Source : Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”