#so

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#established #i #life #move #move on

This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. ↗

— David Bohm

#fertile #function #generally #harmonious #help

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates. ↗

— David Bohm

#constantly #creates #creating #makes #more

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

#case #cases #doctor #fact #far

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

#often #only #rattle #reason #throat

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#change #deep #difficulty #every #find

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. ↗

— Irving Howe

#behind #engaging #imagination #leaving #reality

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗