"This
capacity to re-order and transform what we learn
is the creative process. Confusion can be productive
if we accept the complexity of what is not yet
understood. We should not be afraid of what our
mistakes bring us; accidents can re-order the
structure of our concerns. It is a question of
how to strike a middle path between accepting
what comes and optimistically doing some retouching.
The predictive powers in all enterprise depend
a great deal on enthusiasm; without it, absolutely
nothing happens. Pessimism has a lot of prestige
but very little muscle. To be pessimistic a priori
is unfair to the problem."
- Frederick Sommer
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Entry
XV: 11/22/04 |
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"If
you smile at me, I will understand cause that
is something everybody does in the same language."
- Crosby, Stills &
Nash -
Entry
XIV: 11/08/04 |
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"In
every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected
thoughts: they come back to us with a certain
alienated majesty."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Entry
XIII: 10/25/04 |
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"Of
course it's hard. The hard is what makes it great.
If it was easy everybody would do it."
- Tom Hanks is A
League of Their Own -
Entry
XII: 10/11/04 |
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"Silence
is the virtue of fools."
- Francis Bacon
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Entry
XI: 09/27/04 |
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"It
has been my experience that folks who have no
vices have very few virtues."
- Abraham Lincoln
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Entry
X: 09/13/04 |
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"Grant
me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot
change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference."
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Entry
IX: 08/30/04 |
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"The
greatest pleasure in life is doing what people
say you cannot do."
- Unknown
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Entry
VIII: 08/16/04 |
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"A
little rebellion is a good thing."
- Thomas Jefferson
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Entry
VII: 08/02/04 |
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"In
theory, theory equals reality, in reality, it
does not."
- Unknown
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Entry
VI: 07/19/04 |
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"The
university imparts information, but it imparts
it imaginatively. At least, this is the function
it should perform for society...This atmosphere
of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration,
transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a care
fact: it is invested with all its possibilities."
- Alfred Whitehead
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Entry
V: 07/05/04 |
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"More
and more people are realizing that the coherent
way of investigating any field is to examine its
possible relatedness to other things."
- Frederick Sommer
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Entry
IV: 06/21/04 |
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"All
our knowledge proceeds from what we feel."
- Leonardo da Vinci, Codex
Trivulzianus -
Entry
III: 06/07/04 |
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| "I have
no idols. I admire work, dedication, and competence."
- Ayrton Senna -
Entry II: 05/24/04 |
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| “It
is easy in the world to live after the world’s
opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after
our own; but the great man is he who in the midst
of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the
independence of solitude.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Entry I: 05/10/04 |
