#rat

If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. However, if you can only manipulate probability, you can only create a path to victory. But remember, plans can break down. The future is always a step ahead of you. The key is being able to manipulate probability and plan for uncertainty. This way, you don't have to create a path to victory, but manipulate all options so that all paths lead to a victory. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#art

Sometimes it seems that we initiate a scene and sometimes it seems that we’re just taking part in the scene. Actually, we’re initiating them all. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

How do you not let things bother you? By placing yourself out of the physical and emotional range of that which is bothering you. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream.  It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

... I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker...and then, in turn, gifted to us. ↗

— Terri Windling

#artists #creating #creative #inspirational #making

The thing is you cannot imagine what is going to happen next. If you're imagining it - it's from your imagination. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

first lay plans which will ensure victory, and then lead your army to battle;  if you will not begin with stratagem but rely on brute strength alone, victory will no longer be assured ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation. ↗

— Jim Hinckley

#inspirational #death

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#always #appears #been #between #books

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#art