December 2010
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
– Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes)
“Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a...”
– Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (via liquidnight)
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein
The Creativity Crisis « Learning Change →
gfbertini:
For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it?
Around the world, though, other countries are making creativity development a national priority. In 2008 British secondary-school curricula—from science to foreign language—was revamped to emphasize idea generation, and pilot programs have begun using Torrance’s test to...
as-the-sparrow:
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
— Anais Nin
“It was cold. I actually fell asleep. They said, “Lie there.” So I did. And then...”
– James Phelps, on Fred’s death scene (via thechocolatebrigade)
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
– Charles Bukowski (via rootsofpassion)
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide...”
– Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (via thechocolatebrigade)
Imagination and Knowledge – Is imagination more... →
gfbertini:
Knowledge concerns itself with what is present to the senses, but is also a stored and shared repository of publicly acceptable thoughts, many frozen into physical symbols (written or spoken), transmitted through time and space. Knowledge coded, stored and expressed using symbols can, because of the entrancing flexibility of symbol systems, be broken up and reassembled in a multitude...
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the...”
– Rumi (via how-i-love)
“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn’t give me companionship...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via starsmending)
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is...”
– e.e. cummings (via psychotherapy)
“When it comes to partners, men often find women’s taste fickle and unfathomable....”
– Place a premium on the hunk’s choicer genes or the wimp’s love and care? Scientists are battling to explain why “women in dirty places like Brad Pitt”.
(via theeconomist)
“The light of morning decomposes everything.”
– A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (via thechocolatebrigade)
“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad”
– Sylvia Plath (via foralskelse)
