A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.
L.P. Jacks from his Education Through Recreation, published in 1932.
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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
Chuck Close
FASHION is what you adopt when you don’t know who you ARE.
Quentin Crisp
Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Will Rogers
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
C.S. Lewis
Zen is very simple. Dishwashing time, just wash dishes; sitting time, just sit; driving time, just drive; talking time, just talk; walking time, just walk.
The Kwan Um School of Zen
The first rule of focus is this: “Wherever you are, be there.
Unknown
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