"As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges."

-- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann

#Creativity Quotes #Mean Quotes #Past Quotes

“That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.92, Profile Books
“Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

Source : Preface (written 1918)
“We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.”
“Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.”
“But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency should be taught to every young man and woman as a fundamental skill, should become as vital to growing up as learning to wipe oneâ€™s own ass, cross the street by oneself, or be trusted with money.”

Source : Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.381, A&C Black
“Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.”
“Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.”
“If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?”

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