The beginning of adolescence seems to mark the abrupt end of artistic development in terms of drawing skills for many adults. As children, they confronted an artistic crisis, a conflict between their increasingly complex perceptions of the world around them and their current level of art skill.
Betty Edwards
You take the mortar, block, and glass
And you forget the speech that moved the stone
Ben Folds
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Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
Donald Norman
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.
Ajahn Chah
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Eckhart Tolle
The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.
Pema Chodron
We choose our destiny in the way we treat others.
Wit
Work work work work work
Middle line divides labor
Work work work work work
Thomas Levine
Poem: “Division of Labor”
Quick, jab my fading pink zit, evil sex whore!
Keith Schneider
Essentially, it was a power struggle between progressives and conservatives. The backward-looking Celts lost: at the Synod of Whitby in 664, the issue was decided in favor of the Roman tradition… and… the Irish monks’ distinctive Uncial script was replaced by its more compact Insular version.
Kitty Burns Florey.
Book: “Script & Scribble”, 2009, page 30
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.
Leonardo da Vinci
Book: “The Natural Way to Draw”, by Kimon Nicolaides, quoted in
anyone, who depends on the use of the fingers alone, without a simultaneous movement of the arm, or forearm, will be unable to write a word extending an inch or more upon the line, without having his hand gradually thrown over from left to right, in order to allow for the action of the pen on the paper. The third and fourth fingers remaining fixed, while the other two are carrying the pen to the end of a long word, the hand and the fingers are painfully cramped and strained. On finishing a word, moreover, the hand is jerked along, and the under fingers make to a new position. This they retain until the hand is gradually turned nearly or quite over, and the fingers that hold the pen, are again stretched as far in advance of the others as they can bear, when a new jerk is given to the hand, and so on till the writing is finished.
Benjamin Franklin Foster
Essay: Prize essay on the best method of teaching penmanship, 1834
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
Eckhart Tolle
I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
Lin-yutang
You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.
Remez Sasson
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
Jean Kerr
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Pema Chodron
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.
Anonymous
You only lose what you cling to.
Buddha
See, you finish a book by writing it, but in my head, it’s not really done until it’s sitting in your hand.
Michael Lopp
Freedom isn’t worth having if it doesn’t involve the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I’ll tell you a riddle. You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. How can it not matter to you where the train will take you?
Dominic Cobb
Movie: Inception
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
…the matter and life which fill the world are equally within us; the forces which work in all things we feel within ourselves; whatever may be the inner essence of what is and what is done, we are of that essence. Let us then go down into our own inner selves: the deeper the point we touch, the strong will be the thrust which sends us back to the surface.
Henri Bergson
Book: The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.
Unknown
Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
Ajahn Brahm
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Unknown
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Movie: Braveheart
War and courage have done more than love of your neighbor. Not your pity but your bravery has saved the unfortunate thus far.
Nietzche
Life is a MMORPG. Grind. Level Up. Conquer the world.
VIRGIL.GRiffith
[Evolution via natural selection] is, “almost a tautology,” and “not a testable scientific theory but a metaphysical research program… One ought to look for alternatives.”
Karl Popper
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
He who leads a war for the love of his fellow men, will defeat his enemies.
Video game: Metro 2033
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Voltaire
This is every cook’s opinion -
no savory dish without an onion,
but lest your kissing should be spoiled
your onions must be fully boiled.
Jonathan Swift
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley
Speech:
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
C.S. Lewis
Materialism is the auxiliary doctrine of every tyranny, be it that of a single man or of the masses.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.

Norman Shidle
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I don’t want to punish any body, but there are an extraordinary number of people whom I want to kill. I think it would be a good thing to make everybody come before a properly appointed board just as he might come before the income tax commissioners and say every 5 or 7 years just put them there and say, ‘Sir or madame, would you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly, we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be very much use to yourself.’
George Bernard Shaw
Jesus wishes each of us to remain in his place, sanctifying the world from within, improving it and placing it at the feet of God. Only thus will the world be a place where human dignity is valued and respected, a place where men live in peace, in true peace, the peace which is so closely linked to God… Those we live and work with, those we come in contact with, should find us loyal, sincere, joyful and hard-working. We should behave as people who fulfill their duties honestly and live as children of God in the ups and downs of each day. The ordinary norms of courtesy (how we greet others, our cordiality and spirit of service), which for many are merely conventional and external, have to be in us the fruit of charity and an expression of real interest in someone else.
Francis Fernandez
Book: In Conversation with God, v 2, p 535-536
You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
Unknown
We live with the choices we make.
Mihai Ocneanu
Speech: Craiova 2009
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
George Washington
Now, it is worthy of remark that [Thomism] is the only working philosophy. Of nearly all other philosophies it is strictly true that their followers work in spite of them, or do not work at all. No sceptics work sceptically; no fatalists work fatalistically; all without exception work on the principle that it is possible to assume what it is not possible to believe. No materialist who thinks his mind was made up for him, by mud and blood and heredity, has any hesitation in making up his mind. No sceptic who believes that truth is subjective has any hesitation about treating it as objective.
G.K. Chesterton
Book: Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
“No one is happy here on earth until he decides not to be.”
St. Josemaría Escrivá
Book: The Furrow, #52.