"Planning is not my friend. Impulse is."

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Source : Kiersten White (2013). “Mind Games”, p.10, Harper Collins

Kiersten White

#Planning Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics.”

Source : Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”
“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications
“When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.”
“You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.”
“Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.”
“A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.”
“It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015
“To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.”

Source : John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press

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