"It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow."

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Source : "There are no mistakes on the bandstand". TED Talk, www.ted.com. November 2011.

Stefon Harris

#Creativity Quotes #Flow Quotes #Moments Quotes

“We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
“Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!â€ This made Cinder pause and squint into Ikoâ€™s blinding light. â€œWhy would the prince dance with me?â€ Ikoâ€™s fan hummed as she sought an answer. â€œBecause you wonâ€™t have grease on your face this time.”
“I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way: I've learned to heed the call of my heart. I've learned that the safest path is not always the best path and I've learned that the voice of fear is not always to be trusted.”
“Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.”
“You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.”
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
“You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you...”

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