"Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. â€œAuthentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,â€ [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. â€œIt wakes us right up."

-- Jonah Lehrer

#Views Quotes #California Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.”
“The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.”

Source : Ronald Sukenick (1975). “98.6: A Novel”, p.167, University of Alabama Press
“I've got my fingers in many pies and I'm very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.”
“Don't pressure yourself. Don't worry about what others think you should do or what the societal "norm" is. Do what moves you and makes you smile and the "good" will follow.”
“If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.”
“Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are.Â Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderstandings, memories, sex, dreams, and books matter less than forebears do.Â After all, in terms of influences, it is as much the guy who mugged me on Tenth Street, or my beloved dog who passed away much too early, as it was Giotto or Diane Arbus.”

Source : Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Robert Gober, Cynthia Burlingham, Dave Hickey, Tullis Johnson (2009). “Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield”, Prestel Pub
“I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.”

Source : 'Pathology of Colours' (1968)
“I never read in bed, only in my study.”

You may also like: