#ra

I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. Divergent, p. 207 ↗

— Veronica Roth

#courage

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #challenges #confidence #conflict-resolution #courage

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#courage #men #sexism #women #courage

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#creativity #inspirational #age

(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#home #libraries #organization #art

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions. ↗

— Ralph Alfred Habas

#distraction #p #art

Inside" Children Inside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by "acting out" in order to try to get our attention. Your inner 5-year-old is not going to patiently wait as you learn intricate metalworking techniques or study impressionist painting. Yet, your inner 10-year-old may be perfectly suited to learn and observe new skills. What's really needed is parenting of these inside children so that we bring them to age-appropriate activities. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#creativity #dreaming #procrastination #writing #age

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ↗

— Irving Stone

#artist #creative-process #creativity #ideas #inspiration

Move not unless you see an advantage;  use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

When men think much, they can rarely decide. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#men #much #rarely #think