"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

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E. F. Schumacher

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Courage Quotes

“I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.”
“a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“This new (technology) that is so transforming our world and economy is not going to work unless it works for everyone.”
“I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.”
“...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)”
“There is no problem so bad that you cannot make it worse”
“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy â€” or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop â€˜Hidden Artâ€™ will also, of course, take time and energy â€“ and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!”

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