“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. supreme court justice
Vision
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
- Carl Jung
Attention to Detail
A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative
effect of his attention to detail.
- John Foster Dulles
Value of Creativity
My good friend, Janet, sent me this:
from time magazine- from a commencement speech by gilbert grosvener, pres. national geographic society–“I think of J.R.R.Tolkien. The year is 1926. He sits in his study at Oxford correcting a student’s thesis.The student had, for some reason left a page blank. When Tolkien came to it, he picked up his pen and wrote on the blank page:’In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.’ Thus launched one of the great literary careerssof our century. He was asked why he had done that, nad he replied: ‘It popped into my head’. No machine, no electronic wizardry, can replace the single act of creation, the inspired moment that arrives in it’s own time, at it’s own speed, and from its own unknown source. It is what drives all the rest. Regardless of how technology increases the speed, the volume and the nature of communication, the value of the content- the very essence- will begin and end with the creative personality.”
Believe
“To be fully human is to believe in something or someone, to know that it’s possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other until you manage to find your home again.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Follow Your Bliss
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
- Joseph Campbell
