It is art that sings to us and opens our hearts to one another.  It is art that gives meaning to things that otherwise go unnoticed.  And that connects us to our past.  And that laughs at our hubris and limitations, while speaking to us of the darkness we cannot say out loud.*
Brian Mau

The point of curating trends is to see what others don’t and to predict a future that can inspire new thinking.**
Rohit Bhargava

*Quoted in Warren Berger’s Glimmer;
*Non Obvious 2019.

[T]he human individual lives usually within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energises below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum.*
William James

You are strong, self-sufficient, you make time for reading, thinking, quiet contemplation, meditation, or prayer. This need not cost a penny.**
Tom Hodgkinson

*Quoted in Angela Duckworth’s Grit;
**Tom Hodgkinson’s Business for Bohemians.

When someone combines generosity, insight and bravery to provide something before know that’s what we need, we are particularly grateful.*
Seth Godin

What could be better than humour and compassion and the savour of life?  What could be better than that man’s work should become the world’s freedom, and man’s enjoyment the world’s perfecting.**
M. C. Richards

*Seth Godin’s blog: Not what we asked form but just what we needed;
**M. C. Richards’ Centering.

It’s tempting to dumb down your work, or go for a shortcut or a quick hit. Worst of all, to simply give up. Please don’t.*
Seth Godin

I swapped “work” in the quote for “story;”
It holds an important message.

*Seth Godin’s blog: Crickets.

The perfectionist desires an outcome that can never be achieved. That’s why they’re a perfectionist–to hide behind the impossible.*
Seth Godin

*Seth Godin’s blog: Perfect is not the same as perfectionism.

The unknown is not simply out there, outside us. The unknown dwells in the recesses of the human heart and becomes especially explicit in our flaws; consequently the true language of the self is hesitant, shadowed and poetic..*
John O’Donohue

*John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty.

Remaining open,
To what is
and to possibility,
Is one of the hardest things we will ever do.

We want to make our minds up,
We want closure.

If we’re only into our expected
we will miss so many things.

At the centre of everything we call “the arts,” and children call “play,” is something which seems somehow alive.*
Lynda Barry

*From Lynda Barry’s What It Is.

It’s a thing that worries me sometimes whenever you talk about creativity, because it can have this kind of feel that it’s just nice, you know, or it’s warm or it’s something pleasant. It’s not. It’s vital. It’s the way we heal each other.*
Ethan Hawke

The world needs your pictures.

*Quoted in Sam Radford‘s blog: The way we heal each other.