How Being Vague Can Make Your Creative Work More Powerful
“When you eliminate a person’s need to infer — when you explain things — you take the mystery out. By doing this, the person experiencing the art uses their min...
“When you eliminate a person’s need to infer — when you explain things — you take the mystery out. By doing this, the person experiencing the art uses their min...
“One way to conceive of what artists do is to think that they are, in their own way, running advertising campaigns. Not for anything expensive or usually even a...
“When you have a child, she becomes your past, present, and future.”
“Instead of thinking of it as a quality or skill you bring to bear on something, consider focus to be the force you exert to stay in line with your intentions.”
“If all you want to do is be someone who started a business or finished a creative project, that’s going to be bad for you. You can’t go into business thinking ...
“The skill to get hot without getting mad — to have a good argument that doesn’t become personal — is critical in life. But it’s one that few parents teach to t...
“You don’t have to change what you want just because someone else wants something different. All you have to do is clarify — with grace and firmness — that your...
“The desk, the computer on top of it, the chair you sit in, and the space they comprise are all repositories for memory. But these things don’t just store our m...
“For at least twelve years, you’re trained to regurgitate and apply information that’s pre-packaged for you but never trained to find that information on your o...
“If you have read an interesting article, do not wait until you want to talk about it to revive your memories. The time to revive them and make them permanent i...