"The problem contains the solution."

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Source : "Michael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks". Michael Bierut's presentation at the 99% Conference in New York, 99u.adobe.com. 2009.

Michael Bierut

#Problem Quotes #Solutions Quotes

“The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.”
“By nature, I'm a little distractible. I get very overwhelmed by the world.”
“But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.”
“Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
“Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.”
“I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.”

Source : Stephen Greenblatt (2013). “Hamlet in Purgatory”, p.4, Princeton University Press
“I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the present tense. I'm a lucky guy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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